What Matters Most To Me? To Work

I Shan't Get Free Of My Emotion By Copying The Tree Faithfully, Or By Drawing Its Leaves One By One In The Common Language, But Only After Identifying Myself With It.

Did Not The Artists Of The Great Age Of Japanese Art Change Names Many Times During Their Careers? I Like That; They Wanted To Safeguard Their Freedom.

My Choice Of Colors Does Not Rest On Any Scientific Theory; It Is Based On Observation, On Feeling, On The Experience Of My Sensibility. Inspired By Certain Pages Of Delacroix, An Artist Like Signac Is Preoccupied With Complementary Colors, And The Theoretical Knowledge Of Them Will Lead Him To Use A Certain Tone In A Certain Place. But I Simply Try To Put Down Colors Which Render My Sensation.

You Want To Paint? First Of All You Must Cut Off Your Tongue Because Your Decision Takes Away From You The Right To Express Yourself With Anything But Your Brush.

You Must Forget All Your Theories, All Your Ideas Before The Subject. What Part Of These Is Really Your Own Will Be Expressed In Your Expression Of The Emotion Awakened In You By The Subject.