When I paint green, it doesn't mean grass; when I paint blue, it doesn't mean sky.

The main function of color should be to serve expression.

If drawing belongs to the world of spirit and color to that of the senses, you must draw first to cultivate the spirit.

A certain color tones you up. It's the concentration of timbres.

Seek for the boldest color possible, content is irrelevant.

Color exists in itself, possessing its own beauty.

A thimbleful of red is redder than a bucketful.

I cannot copy nature in a servile way; I am forced to interpret nature and submit it to the spirit of the picture. From the relationship I have found in all the tones there must result a living harmony of colors, a harmony analogous to that of a musical composition.

My pictures are made up of four or five colors that collide with one another…