We are connected with our own age if we recognize ourselves in relation to outside events; and we have grasped its spirit when we influence the future.

Painters must speak through paint, not through words.

What goes on in abstract art is the proclaiming of aesthetic principles... It is in our own time that we have become aware of pure aesthetic considerations. Art never can be imitation.

The child is really an artist, and the artist should be like a child, but he should not stay a child. He must become an artist. That means he cannot permit himself to become sentimental or something like that. He must know what he is doing

The whole world, as we experience it visually, comes to us through the mystic realm of color. Our entire being is nourished by it. This mystic quality of color should likewise find expression in a work of art.

Art cannot result from sophisticated, frivolous, or superficial effects.

Every art expression is rooted fundamentally in the personality and temperament of the artist.