A young woman has young claws, well sharpened. If she has character, that is. And if she hasn't so much the worse for you.
Cutting into color reminds me of the sculptor's direct carving.
An artist must never be a prisoner. Prisoner? An artist should never be a prisoner of himself, prisoner of style, prisoner of reputation, prisoner of success, etc.
I would like to recapture that freshness of vision which is characteristic of extreme youth when all the world is new to it.
Instinct must be thwarted just as one prunes the branches of a tree so that it will grow better.
Jazz is rhythm and meaning.
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.
Work cures everything.
I'm growing old, I delight in the past.
Time extracts various values from a painter's work. When these values are exhausted the pictures are forgotten, and the more a picture has to give, the greater it is.
In the beginning you must subject yourself to the influence of nature. You must be able to walk firmly on the ground before you start walking on a tightrope.
It is only after years of preparation that the young artist should touch color - not color used descriptively, that is, but as a means of personal expression.
I have been no more than a medium, as it were.
