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

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

A painter paints because he has no time not to paint.

Simultaneous contrast is not just a curious optical phenomenon - it is the very heart of painting.

To design is to plan and to organize, to order, to relate and to control. In short it embraces all means of opposing disorder and accident. Therefore it signifies a human need and qualifies man’s thinking and doing.

I was for years in the yellow period, you know.

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.