It Has Always Bothered Me That I

...i Am Driven On By An Idea That I Really Only Grasp As It Grows With The Picture.

Don't Try To Be Original. Be Simple. Be Good Technically, And If There Is Something In You, It Will Come Out.

The Chief Function Of Color Should Be To Serve Expression As Well As Possible.

The Artist Begins With A Vision - A Creative Operation Requiring Effort. Creativity Takes Courage.

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.