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

And I started with this: I have not painted at all my childhood. In fact, I never painted. But I helped my father who was a house painter and decorative painter. He made stage sets, he made glass paintings, he made everything.

Apprentice is the beginner - the first years you work in a craft in the European sense you are an apprentice. That takes 3 or 4 years. Then you are a journeyman. You can go from one master to another and learn other tricks and other secrets.

In Italy the artist is a god. Now if the artist is a god, the scientist is likewise a god.

Ah, the creative process is the same secret in science as it is in art. They are all the same absolutely.

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

Repeated similar experiments with adjacent colors will show that any ground subtracts its own hue from colors which it carries and therefore influences.