I must continue to follow the path I take now. If I do nothing, if I study nothing, if I cease searching, then, woe is me, I am lost. That is how I look at it — keep going, keep going come what may. But what is your final goal, you may ask. That goal will become clearer, will emerge slowly but surely, much as the rough draught turns into a sketch, and the sketch into a painting through the serious work done on it, through the elaboration of the original vague idea and through the consolidation of the first fleeting and passing thought.

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

Yellow is capable of charming God.

I shouldn't precisely have chosen madness if there had been any choice, but once such a thing has taken hold of you, you can't very well get out of it.

I work as diligently on my canvases as the laborers do in their fields.

Since visiting the abatoirs of S. France I have stopped eating meat.

What a simple thing death is, just as simple as the falling of an autumn leaf.