Another word for creativity is courage.

A painting in an interior spreads joy around it by the colors, which calm us.

The energy within you is stronger than ever for being held back, compressed, and said No to.

Seek the strongest color effect possible... the content is of no importance.

The things that are acquired consciously permit us to express ourselves unconsciously with a certain richness.

The residuum of another's expression can never be related to one's own feeling.

I want to reach that condensation of sensations that constitutes a picture.

Fit the parts together, one into the other, and build your figure like a carpenter builds a house. Everything must be constructed, composed of parts that make a whole.

I've been forty years discovering that the queen of all colors is black.

The sign is determined at the moment I use it and for the object of which it must form a part. For this reason I cannot determine in advance signs which never change, and which would be like writing: that would paralyze the freedom of my invention.

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

The artist has to look at life as he did when he was a child. If he loses that faculty, he cannot express himself in an original, that is, a personal way.

A work should contain its total meaning within itself and should impress it on the spectator before he even knows the subject.

This is why journeys are useful, they enlarge the space that is around us.

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

A certain blue enters your soul. A certain red has an effect on your blood-pressure.

I have to create an object which resembles the tree. The sign for a tree, and not the sign that other artists may have found for the tree.

Truth and reality in art do not arise until you no longer understand what you are doing and are capable of but nevertheless sense a power that grows in proportion to your resistance.

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

Cutting straight into color reminds me of the direct carving of the sculptor.