We never really perceive what color is physically!

Just as the unmusical ear is not competent to judge music, so it is likewise with pictures, whether they are paintings, drawings or photos. Only a sensitive and trained eye gives us the right to judge.

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.

What has been said does not simply belong to us.

I count all the time on resonance. I call on this, you see.

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

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