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

We never really perceive what color is physically!

Simultaneous contrast is not just a curious optical phenomenon – it is the very heart of painting. Repeated experiments with adjacent colors will show that any ground subtracts its own hue from the colors which it carries and therefore influences.

If one says “Red” (the name of a color) and there are 50 people listening, it can be expected that there will be 50 reds in their minds. And one can be sure that all these reds will be very different.

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

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

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