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I Cannot Copy Nature In A Servile Way; I Am Forced To Interpret Nature And Submit It To The Spirit Of The Picture. From The Relationship I Have Found In All The Tones There Must Result A Living Harmony Of Colors, A Harmony Analogous To That Of A Musical Composition.

You Study, You Learn, But You Guard The Original Naivete. It Has To Be Within You, As Desire For Drink Is Within The Drunkard Or Love Is Within The Lover.

The Effort To See Things Without Distortion Takes Something Like Courage And This Courage Is Essential To The Artist, Who Has To Look At Everything As Though He Saw It For The First Time.

I've Been Forty Years Discovering That The Queen Of All Colors Is Black.

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