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

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

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.

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

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

The feat of superbly imitating a muscle, as Michelangelo did, or a face, as Raphael did, created neither progress nor a hierarchy in art. Because these artists of the sixteenth century imitated human forms, they were not superior to the artists of the high periods of Egyptian, Chaldean, Indochinese, Roman, and Gothic art who interpreted and stylized form but did not imitate it.

Above all, it is a matter of loving art, not understanding it.