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.

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

My curves are not crazy.

An artist who wants to transpose a composition onto a larger canvas must conceive it over again in order to preserve its expression; he must alter its character and not just fill in the squares into which he has divided his canvas.

There are flowers everywhere, for those who bother to look.

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.