I don’t believe in an art that is not born out of man’s need to open his heart.

Art comes from joy and pain...But mostly from pain.

In common with Michelangelo and Rembrandt I am more interested in the line, its rise and fall, than in color

It was always my intention that The Frieze should be housed in a room which would provide a suitable architectural frame for it.

All art, literature, and music must be born in your heart's blood. Art is your heart's blood.

Photography is an art which touches and grips one's own heart's blood.

I painted the picture, and in the colors the rhythm of the music quivers. I painted the colors I saw.