A Certain Blue Enters Your Soul

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.

One Must, Of Course, Have One's Entire Experience Behind One And Not Have Lost The Freshness Of Instinct.

With Greater Completeness And Abstraction, I Have Attained A Form Filtered To Its Essentials.

The Role Of The Artist, Like That Of The Scholar, Consists Of Seizing Current Truths Often Repeated To Him, But Which Will Take On New Meaning For Him And Which He Will Make His Own When He Has Grasped Their Deepest Significance.

I Never Retouch A Sketch: I Take A Canvas The Same Size, As I May Change The Composition Somewhat. But I Always Strive To Give The Same Feeling, While Carrying It On Further.