A Certain Blue Enters Your Soul

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.

The Splitting Up Of Color [as Impressionists Did] Brought The Splitting Up Of Form And Contour . . . Everything Is Reduced To A Mere Sensation Of The Retina, But One Which Destroys All Tranquility Of Surface And Contour. Objects Are Differentiated Only By The Luminosity That Is Given Them.

A Painting In An Interior Spreads Joy Around It By The Colors, Which Calm Us.

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