To Arrive Is To Be

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.

I Have To Create An Object Which Resembles The Tree. The Sign For A Tree, And Not The Sign That Other Artists May Have Found For The Tree.

Color, Even More Than Drawing, Is A Means Of Liberation.

Drawing Is . . . Not An Exercise Of Particular Dexterity, But Above All A Means Of Expressing Intimate Feelings And Moods.

The Residuum Of Another's Expression Can Never Be Related To One's Own Feeling.