You must forget all your theories, all your ideas before the subject. What part of these is really your own will be expressed in your expression of the emotion awakened in you by the subject.
I don't know whether I believe in God or not. I think, really, I'm some kind of a Buddhist. But the essential thing is to put oneself in a frame of mind which is close to that of prayer.
It is only after years of preparation that the young artist should touch color - not color used descriptively, that is, but as a means of personal expression.
Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence.
I didn't expect to recover from my second operation but since I did, I consider that I'm living on borrowed time. Every day that dawns is a gift to me and I take it in that way. I accept it gratefully...
Don't wait for inspiration. It comes while working.
I do not distinguish between the construction of a book and that of a painting and I always proceed from the simple to the complex." - 1946
Creativity takes courage.
The importance of an artist is to be measured by the quantity of new signs which he has introduced to the language of art.
I don't paint things. I only paint the difference between things.
There are always flowers for those who want to see them.
To look at something as though we had never seen it before requires great courage.
With color one obtains an energy that seems to stem from witchcraft.
What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity devoid of troubling or depressing subject matter - a soothing, calming influence on the mind, rather like a good armchair which provides re...
An artist must never be a prisoner. Prisoner? An artist should never be a prisoner of himself, prisoner of style, prisoner of reputation, prisoner of success, etc.
He who loves, flies, runs, and rejoices he is free and nothing holds him back.
From the moment I held the box of colors in my hands, I knew this was my life. I threw myself into it like a beast that plunges towards the thing it loves.
A work should contain its total meaning within itself and should impress it on the spectator before he even knows the subject.
Exactitude is not truth.
Impressionism is the newspaper of the soul.
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