When I put a green, it is not grass. When I put a blue, it is not the sky.

My choice of colors does not rest on any scientific theory, it is based on observation, on feeling, on the experience of my sensibility.

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.

If my story were ever to be written truthfully from start to finish, it would amaze everyone.

Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence.

The artist begins with a vision - a creative operation requiring effort. Creativity takes courage.

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