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

I would like to recapture that freshness of vision which is characteristic of extreme youth when all the world is new to it.

Precision is not reality

A work should contain its total meaning within itself and should impress it on the spectator before he even knows the subject.

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.

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

It would be a mistake to ascribe this creative power to an inborn talent. In art, the genius creator is not just a gifted being, but a person who has succeeded in arranging for their appointed end, a complex of activities, of which the work is the outcome. The artist begins with a vision — a creative operation requiring an effort. Creativity takes courage.