When an artist or student draws a nude figure with painstaking care, the result is drawing, and not emotion.

We ought to view ourselves with the same curiosity and openness with which we study a tree, the sky or a thought, because we too are linked to the entire universe.

Purer colors... have in themselves, independently of the objects they serve to express, a significant action on the feelings of those who look at them.

A certain blue enters your soul. A certain red has an effect on your blood-pressure.

The importance of an artist is to be measured by the quantity of new signs which he has introduced to the language of art.

If drawing belongs to the world of spirit and color to that of the senses, you must draw first to cultivate the spirit.

My pictures are made up of four or five colors that collide with one another.