For me all is in the conception. I must therefore have a clear vision of the whole from the beginning. - Henri Matisse

This is why journeys are useful, they enlarge the space that is around us.

You study, you learn, but you guard the original naïveté. It has to be within you, as desire for drink is within the drunkard or love is within the lover.

An artist must possess Nature. He must identify himself with her rhythms, by effort that will prepare the mastery which will later enable him to express himself in his own language.