I don't paint things. I only paint the difference between things.
Simple colours can affect the intimate feelings with all the more force because they are simple.
After a half-century of hard work and reflection the wall is still there.
Jazz is rhythm and meaning.
The essential thing is to spring forth, to express the bolt of lightning one senses upon contact with a thing. The function of the artist is not to translate an observation but to express the shock of the object on his nature; the shock, with the original reaction.
Creation is the artist's true function; where there is no creation there is no art.