Being inexhaustible, life and nature are a constant stimulus for a creative mind.

I can't understand how anyone is able to paint without optimism. Despite the general pessimistic attitude in the world today, I am nothing but an optimist.

Genius is gifted with a vitality which is expended in the enrichment of life through the discovery of new worlds of feeling.

Through a painting, we can see the whole world.

You must break all the rules of painting, but you must also convince me you've had a reason to do so.

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 ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.