Instead of art I have taught philosophy. Though technique for me is a big word, I never have taught how to paint. All my doing was to make people to see.

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

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

Abstraction is real, probably more real than nature.

I paint the way I spread butter on pumpernickel.

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

I prefer to see with closed eyes.