What might be taken for a precocious genius is the genius of childhood. When the child grows up, it disappears without a trace. It may happen that this boy will become a real painter some day, or even a great painter. But then he will have to begin everything again, from zero.

Sculpture is the best comment that a painter can make on painting.

Sculpture is the art of the intelligence.

Is there anything more dangerous than sympathetic understanding?

I paint objects as I think them not as I see them.

Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.

Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions.

Why do two colors, put one next to the other, sing? Can one really explain this? no. Just as one can never learn how to paint.

One does a whole painting for one peach and people think just the opposite -- that particular peach is but a detail.