When we were in the seminary we got a stipend direct from the government and for that stipend we had an obligation to stick to our teaching job for five years.

I was at the Royal Art School. That was a preparatory school specially for art teachers. You see, it was not so much for the development of artists. But we had there terribly stiff training.

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

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

I'm not a talker. I'm a formulator.

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

As basic rules of a language must be practiced continually, and therefore are never fixed, so exercises toward distinct color effects never are done or over. New and different cases will be discovered time and again.