For great things do not done just happen by impulse but are a succession of small things linked together.

Often whole days pass without my speaking to anyone.

A good painting should be the equivalent of a good deed.

I felt my energy return and that I said to myself, in any event I'll recover from it, I'll pick up my pencil that I put down in my great discouragement and I'll get back to drawing, and from then on, it seems to me, everything has changed for me.

The sight of stars always sets me dreaming just as naively as those black dots on a map set me dreaming of towns and villages. Why should these points of light in the firmament, I wonder, be less accessible than the dark ones on the map of France? We take a train to go to Torascon or Roven and we take death to a star.

The only thing to do is to go one's own way, to try one's best, to make the thing live.

I use color in a completely arbitrary way in order to express myself powerfully.