Exactitude is not truth.

You want to paint? First of all you must cut off your tongue because your decision takes away from you the right to express yourself with anything but your brush.

The Barnes Foundation is the only sane place to see art in America.

I am curious about color as one would be visiting a new country, because I have never concentrated so closely on color expression. Up to now I have waited at the gates of the temple.

You study, you learn, but you guard the original naivete. It has to be within you, as desire for drink is within the drunkard or love is within the lover.

Creation is the artist's true function; where there is no creation there is no art.

Color, even more than drawing, is a means of liberation.