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.

Abstraction is real, probably more real than nature.

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

Easy-to know that diamonds-are precious, Good-to learn that rubies-have depth, But more-to see that pebbles-are miraculous.

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

Instead of art I have taught philosophy. Though technique for me is a big word, I never have taught how to paint. All my doing was to make people to see.

Traditionally art is to create and not to revive. To revive: leave that to the historians, who are looking backward.