An Artist Must Not Feel Under Any

Instinct Must Be Thwarted Just As One Prunes The Branches Of A Tree So That It Will Grow Better.

From Bonheur De Vivre - I Was Thirty-five Then - To This Cut-out - I Am Eighty-two - I Have Not Changed; Not In The Way My Friends Mean Who Want To Compliment Me, No Matter What, On My Good Health, But Because All This Time I Have Looked For The Same Things, Which I Have Perhaps Realized By Different Means.

Do Remember That One Line Does Nothing; It Is Only In Relation To Another That It Creates A Volume.

The Arts Have A Development Which Comes Not Only From The Individual But Also From A Whole Acquired Force, The Civilization Which Precedes Us. One Cannot Do Just Anything. A Talented Artist Cannot Do Whatever He Pleases. If He Only Used His Gifts, He Would Not Exist. We Are Not The Masters Of What We Produce. It Is Imposed On Us.

A Colourist Makes His Presence Known Even In A Simple Charcoal Drawing.