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• There are flowers everywhere, for those who bother to look.
• An artist is an explorer. He has to begin by self-discovery and by observation of his own procedure. After that he must…
• An artist must not feel under any constraint.
• Drawing is putting a line around an idea.
• Seek for the boldest color possible, content is irrelevant.
• The main function of color should be to serve expression.
• Color, even more than drawing, is a means of liberation.
• Color exists in itself, possessing its own beauty.
• It is with color that you render light, though you must also feel this light, have it within yourself.
• Purer colors... have in themselves, independently of the objects they serve to express, a significant action on the feelings of those who…
• My choice of colors does not rest on any scientific theory, it is based on observation, on feeling, on the experience of…
• Color helps to express light, not the physical phenomenon, but the only light that really exists, that in the artist's brain.

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