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

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

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.

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

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

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.