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The artist who paints the emotions creates an enclosed world ... the picture ... which, like a book, has the same interest no matter where it happens to be. Such an artist, we may imagine, spends a great deal of time doing nothing but looking, both around him and inside him.
Drawing is feeling. Color is an act of reason.
The principal subject is the surface, which has its color, its laws over and above those of object.
A painting that is well composed is half finished.
Art is not nature ... There was a lot more to be got out of color.
Art will never be able to exist without nature.
What attracted me was less art itself than the artist's life and all that it meant for me: the idea of creativity and freedom of expression and action. I had been attracted to painting and drawing for a long time, but it was not an irresistible passion; what I wanted, at all costs, was to escape the monotony of life.
It seemed to me that it was possible to translate light, forms, and character using nothing but color, without recourse to values.
Imagination is merely the exploitation of our memory.
One always talks of surrendering to nature. There is also such a thing as surrendering to the picture.
One does not always sing out of happiness.
The expression on my face - who on earth would be interested in that? All that I have to say is to be found in my works. (On being photographed)
Work on the accent, it will enliven the whole.
Color does not add a pleasant quality to design - it reinforces it.
How many days have I spent alone with my cat ... and when I say alone, I mean without a material being, for my cat is a mystical companion, a spirit.
It's not a matter of painting life, it's a matter of giving life to painting.
Speaking, when you have something to say, is like looking. But who looks? If people could see properly, and see whole, they would all be painters. And it's because people have no idea how to look that they hardly ever understand.
I'm trying to do what I have never done - give the impression one has on entering a room: one sees everything and at the same time nothing.
When you forget everything, there only remains yourself - and that is not enough.
You reason colour more than you reason drawing Colour has a logic as severe as form.
You cannot possibly invent painting all by yourself.
The painter's only solid ground is the palette and colors, but as soon as the colors achieve an illusion, they are no longer judged.
Draw your pleasure, paint your pleasure, and express your pleasure strongly.
