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

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.

Art and science create a balance to material life and enlarge the world of living experience. Art leads to a more profound concept of life, because art itself is a profound expression of feeling.

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

It makes no difference whether a work is naturalistic or abstract; every visual expression follows the same fundamental laws

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