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

I'm not a talker. I'm a formulator.

When we were in the seminary we got a stipend direct from the government and for that stipend we had an obligation to stick to our teaching job for five years.

I want color and form to have contradictorily functions.

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.

I think Kandinsky and I were very near friends.

Good teaching is more a giving of right questions than a giving of right answers.