Just as the unmusical ear is not competent to judge music, so it is likewise with pictures, whether they are paintings, drawings or photos. Only a sensitive and trained eye gives us the right to judge.

Art is revelation instead of information, expression instead of description, creation instead of imitation or repetition. Art is concerned with the HOW, not the WHAT; not with literal content, but with the performance of the factual content. The performance - how it is done - that is the content of art.

It was my family that wanted me to be a teacher. That was safe, you see. To be a painter was terrible.

I paint the way I spread butter on pumpernickel.

Simultaneous contrast is not just a curious optical phenomenon - it is the very heart of painting.

In order to use color effectively it is necessary to recognize that color deceives continually.

Traditionally art is to create and not to revive. To revive: leave that to the historians, who are looking backward.