In order to use color effectively it is necessary to recognize that color deceives continually.

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.

I have taught my students not to apply rules or mechanical ways of seeing.

I paint the way I spread butter on pumpernickel.

Color is like cooking. The cook puts in more or less salt, that's the difference!

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.

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.