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

I've handled colour as a man should behave. You may conclude that I consider ethics and aesthetics as one.

Color deceives continuously.

If you don't do it my way, I suggest you commit suicide.

It is not so for art in appreciation because art is concerned with human behavior. And science is concerned with the behavior of metal or energy. It depends on what the fashion is. Now today it's energy. It's the same soul behind it. The same soul, you see.

Independent of harmony rules, any color 'goes' or 'works' with any other color, presupposing that their quantities are appropriate.

I think art parallels life; it is not a report on nature or on intimate disclosure of inner secrets. Color, in my opinion, behaves like man -- in two distinct ways: first in self-realization and then in the realization of relationships with others.