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

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

Art is to me the glorification of the human spirit, and as such it is the cultural documentation of the time in which it is produced.

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

Color is a plastic means of creating intervals... color harmonics produced by special relationships, or tensions. We differentiate now between formal tensions and color tensions, just as we differentiate in music between counterpoint and harmony.

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.

In nature, light creates the color. In the picture, color creates the light.