After a half-century of hard work and reflection the wall is still there.

Don't try to be original. Be simple. Be good technically, and if there is something in you, it will come out.

If I close my eyes, I see things better than with my eyes open.

It is not enough to place colors, however beautiful, one beside the other; colors must also react on one another. Otherwise, you have cacophony.

Drawing is . . . not an exercise of particular dexterity, but above all a means of expressing intimate feelings and moods.

The use of expressive colors is felt to be one of the basic elements of the modern mentality, an historical necessity, beyond choice.

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.