We ought to view ourselves with the same curiosity and openness with which we study a tree, the sky or a thought, because we too are linked to the entire universe.
Beauty comes from the balance between two and three dimensions, between abstraction and representation - I seek the equilibrium behind changing appearances.
My choice of colors does not rest on any scientific theory, it is based on observation, on feeling, on the experience of my sensibility.
There are flowers everywhere, for those who bother to look.
A thimbleful of red is redder than a bucketful.
Ever since there have been men, man has given himself over to too little joy. That alone, my brothers, is our original sin. I should believe only in a God who understood how to dance.
To look at something as though we had never seen it before requires great courage.
Above all, an artist must never be too easily satisfied with what he has done.
I want to reach that condensation of sensations that constitutes a picture.
Starting to paint, I felt gloriously free, quiet, and alone.
Work cures everything.
He who loves, flies, runs, and rejoices; he is free and nothing holds him back.
Colours have their own distinctive beauty that you have to preserve, just as in music you try to preserve sounds. It is a question of organization, of finding the arrangement that will keep the beauty and freshness of the colour
With greater completeness and abstraction, I have attained a form filtered to its essentials.
A certain blue enters your soul. A certain red has an effect on your blood-pressure.
Seek for the boldest color possible, content is irrelevant.
I don't paint things. I only paint the difference between things.
My curves are not crazy.
Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us.
The artist begins with a vision - a creative operation requiring effort. Creativity takes courage.
It is not enough to place colors, however beautiful, one beside the other; colors must also react on one another. Otherwise, you have cacophony.
What I am after, above all, is expression.
Slowly I discovered the secret of my art. It consists of a meditation on nature, on the expression of a dream which is always inspired by reality. With more involvement and regularity, I learned to push each study in a certain direction. Little by little the notion that painting is a means of expression asserted itself, and that one can express the same thing in several ways. Exactitude is not truth, Delacroix liked to say.
An artist is an explorer.
My pictures are made up of four or five colors that collide with one another.
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