I don't paint things. I only paint the difference between things.

There are wonderful things in Jazz, the improvisation, the liveliness, the being at one with the audience.

All art worthy of the name is religious.

The artist begins with a vision - a creative operation requiring effort. Creativity takes courage.

Jazz is rhythm and meaning.

Time extracts various values from a painter's work. When these values are exhausted the pictures are forgotten, and the more a picture has to give, the greater it is.

It is only after years of preparation that the young artist should touch color - not color used descriptively, that is, but as a means of personal expression.