Colour is the skin of the world.Collection: Skins
I love creation more than life, and I must express myself before disappearing.Collection: Creativity
One who knows how to appreciate color relationships, the influence of one color with another, their contrasts and dissonances, is promised an infinite variety of images.Collection: Color
For me there is no gap between my painting and my so-called 'decorative' work. I never considered the 'minor arts' to be artistically frustrating; on the contrary, it was an extension of my art.Collection: Art
In the sky we had rediscovered the moving principle of any work of art: the light, and the motion of color.Collection: Art
The sun rises at midnight.Collection: Midnight
About 1911 I had the idea of making for my son, who had just been born, a blanket composed of bits of fabric like those I had seen in the houses of Russian peasants. When it was finished, the arrangement of the pieces of material seemed to me to evoke cubist conceptions and we then tried to apply the same process to other objects and paintings.Collection: Son
It was a tradition to represent a dancer frozen in a chosen position, like a snapshot. I broke away from this tradition by superimposing postures, blending light and motion and scrambling the planes.Collection: Light
ZENITH / NOON beats out / on its solar anvil / the rays of lightCollection: Light