The imagination is the vehicle of sensibility. Transported by the imagination, we attain life, life itself, which is absolute art.

Color is sensibility in material form, matter in its primordial state.

The essential of painting is that 'something', that 'ethereal glue,' that 'intermediary product' which the artist exudes with all his creative being and which he has the power to place, to encrust, to impregnate into the pictorial matter of the painting.

Blue suggests the sea and sky, and they, after all, are in actual, visible nature what is most abstract.

Blue has no dimensions, it is beyond dimensions, whereas the other colours are not....All colours arouse specific associative ideas, psychologically material or tangible, while blue suggests at most the sea and sky, and they, after all, are in actual, visible nature what is most abstract.

The imagination is the vehicle of sensibility. Transported by the imagination, we attain life, life itself, which is absolute art.

As I lay stretched upon the beach of Nice, I began to feel hatred for birds which flew back and forth across my blue sky, cloudless sky, because they tried to bore holes in my greatest and most beautiful work.