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

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.

Good teaching is more a giving of right questions than a giving of right answers.

I want color and form to have contradictorily functions.

In order to use color effectively it is necessary to recognize that color deceives continually.

I think art parallels life; it is not a report on nature or on intimate disclosure of inner secrets. Color, in my opinion, behaves like man -- in two distinct ways: first in self-realization and then in the realization of relationships with others.