Color exists in itself, possessing its own beauty.
A work should contain its total meaning within itself and should impress it on the spectator before he even knows the subject.
...I am driven on by an idea that I really only grasp as it grows with the picture.
I do not literally paint that table, but the emotion it produces upon me.
I am unable to make any distinction between the feeling I get from life and the way I translate that feeling into painting.
A thimbleful of red is redder than a bucketful.