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.

Easy-to know that diamonds-are precious, Good-to learn that rubies-have depth, But more-to see that pebbles-are miraculous.

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

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

I was for years in the yellow period, you know.

We never really perceive what color really is, as it physically is. This fact makes color the most relative medium in art.

My father's parents were carpenters. They were also builders partly. They were painters. And several of them were very, active in the theatre and all such nonsense, you know.