I am working with the enthusiasm of a man from Marseilles eating bouillabaisse, which shouldn't come as a surprise to you because I am busy painting huge sunflowers.

One should arrive at leading one's conscience to a state of development so that it becomes the voice of a better and higher self, of which the ordinary self is a servant.

The wheat field has ...poetry; it is like a memory of something one has once seen. We can only make our pictures speak.

The emotions are sometimes so strong that I work without knowing it. The strokes come like speech.

But what's your ultimate goal, you'll say. That goal will become clearer, will take shape slowly and surely, as the croquis becomes a sketch and the sketch a painting, as one works more seriously, as one digs deeper into the originally vague idea, the first fugitive, passing thought, unless it becomes firm.

Drawing is the root of everything.

Love always brings difficulties, that is true, but the good side of it is that it gives energy.