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.

Creativity takes courage.

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.

Don't wait for inspiration. It comes while working.

I don't paint things. I only paint the difference between things.

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.

Don't wait for inspiration. It comes while one is working.

...The more a picture has to give, the greater it is.

With color one obtains an energy that seems to stem from witchcraft.