If My Story Were Ever To Be

A Work Of Art Must Carry In Itself Its Complete Significance And Impose It Upon The Beholder Even Before He Can Identify The Subject-matter.

If Drawing Belongs To The World Of Spirit And Color To That Of The Senses, You Must Draw First To Cultivate The Spirit.

It Is With Color That You Render Light, Though You Must Also Feel This Light, Have It Within Yourself.

The Essential Thing Is To Work In A State Of Mind That Approaches Prayer.

If People Knew What Matisse, Supposedly The Painter Of Happiness, Had Gone Through, The Anguish And Tragedy He Had To Overcome To Manage To Capture That Light Which Has Never Left Him, If People Knew All That, They Would Also Realize That This Happiness, This Light, This Dispassionate Wisdom Which Seems To Be Mine, Are Sometimes Well-deserved, Given The Severity Of My Trials.