A new painting is a unique event, a birth, which enriches the universe as it is grasped by the human mind, by bringing a new form into it.

A painting in an interior spreads joy around it by the colors, which calm us.

I am unable to distinguish between the feeling I have for life and my way of expressing it.

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

Creative people are curious, flexible, and independent with a tremendous spirit and a love of play.

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.

If it is practiced by a man of taste, the photograph will have the appearance of art (but) the photographer must...intervene as little as possible, so as not to lose the objective charm which it naturally possesses.