In Italy the artist is a god. Now if the artist is a god, the scientist is likewise a god.

Abstraction is real, probably more real than nature.

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.

Independent of harmony rules, any color 'goes' or 'works' with any other color, presupposing that their quantities are appropriate.

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.

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

I paint the way I spread butter on pumpernickel.