Learn to see and to feel life; that is, cultivate imagination, because there are still marvels in the world, because life is a mystery and always will be. But be aware of it.

Every perception of color is an illusion, we do not see colors as they really are. In our perception they alter one another.

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.

Learn to see and to feel life; that is, cultivate imagination, because there are still marvels in the world, because life is a mystery and always will be. But be aware of it.

I think Kandinsky and I were very near friends.

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.