The whole arrangement of my picture is expressive. The place occupied by the figures or objects, the empty spaces around them, the proportions, everything plays a part.
I have simply wished to assert the reasoned and independent feeling of my own individuality within a total knowledge of tradition.
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.
One must, of course, have one's entire experience behind one and not have lost the freshness of instinct.
An artist must not feel under any constraint.
To draw is to make an idea precise. Drawing is the precision of thought.
There's nothing clinically wrong with me, only an emotional imbalance - I pass too quickly from the wildest enthusiasm to the blackest despair.
With color one obtains an energy that seems to stem from witchcraft.
I'm growing old, I delight in the past.
When a painting is finished, it's like a new born child, and the artist himself must have time for understanding. How then do you expect an amateur to understand that which the artist dos not yet comprehend.
Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence.
When I put a green, it is not grass. When I put a blue, it is not the sky.
The residuum of another's expression can never be related to one's own feeling.
One gets into a state of creativity by conscious work.
Whoever wishes to devote himself to painting should begin by cutting out his own tongue
A picture must possess a real power to generate light and for a long time now I've been conscious of expressing myself through light or rather in light.
Much of the beauty that arises in art comes from the struggle an artist wages with his limited medium.
What I dream of is an art of balance.
Color, even more than drawing, is a means of liberation.
A rapid rendering of a landscape represents only one moment of its existence. I prefer, by insisting upon its essential character, to risk losing charm in order to gain greater stability.
All that is not useful in a picture is detrimental. A work of art must be harmonious in its entirety; for superfluous details would, in the mind of the beholder, encroach upon the essential elements.
I didn't expect to recover from my second operation but since I did, I consider that I'm living on borrowed time. Every day that dawns is a gift to me and I take it in that way. I accept it gratefully without looking beyond it. I completely forget my physical suffering and all the unpleasantness of my present condition and I think only of the joy of seeing the sun rise once more and of being able to work a little bit, even under difficult conditions.
...I am driven on by an idea that I really only grasp as it grows with the picture.
For my part I have never avoided the influence of others. I would have considered it cowardice and a lack of sincerity toward myself.
A young painter who cannot liberate himself from the influence of past generations is digging his own grave.
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