Man needs color to live; it's just as necessary an element as fire and water.

Colour is a human need like water and fire. It is a raw material indispensable to life

What does that represent? There was never any question in plastic art, in poetry, in music, of representing anything. It is a matter of making something beautiful, moving, or dramatic - this is by no means the same thing.

The realistic value of a work is completely independent of its properties in terms of content.

The Beautiful is everywhere; perhaps more in the arrangement of your saucepans on the white walls of your kitchen than in your eighteenth-century living room or in the official museums.

Enormous enlargements of an object or a fragment give it a personality it never had before, and in this way, it can become a vehicle of entirely new lyric and plastic power.

This truth must be recognized as a dogma and assume the validity of an axiom in the general understanding of painting