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

I prefer to see with closed eyes.

It's the only dish I serve my craziness for color in.

When we are honest - that's my saying - if we are honest then we will reveal ourselves. But we do not have to make an effort to be individualistic, different from others.

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

My father's parents were carpenters. They were also builders partly. They were painters. And several of them were very, active in the theatre and all such nonsense, you know.

To design is to plan and to organize, to order, to relate and to control. In short it embraces all means of opposing disorder and accident. Therefore it signifies a human need and qualifies man’s thinking and doing.