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

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.

A thought functions only as a fragmentary part in the formulation of an idea.

The art of pictorial creation is so complicated - it is so astronomical in its possibilities of relation and combination that it would take an act of super-human concentration to explain the final realization.

To experience visually, and to transform our visual experience into plastic terms, requires the faculty of empathy.

Colors must fit together as pieces in a puzzle or cogs in a wheel.