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

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.

I think Kandinsky and I were very near friends.

What has been said does not simply belong to us.

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.

One line plus one line results in many meanings.

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