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

A thing in itself never expresses anything. It is the relation between things that gives meaning to them and that formulates a thought. A thought functions only as a fragmentary part in the formulation of an idea.

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

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

It is not the form that dictates the color, but the color that brings out the form.

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.

Creation is dominated by three absolutely different factors: First, nature, which works upon us by its laws; second, the artist, who creates a spiritual contact with nature and his materials; third, the medium of expression through which the artist translates his inner world.