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.

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.

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

I want color and form to have contradictorily functions.

Art is revelation instead of information, expression instead of description, creation instead of imitation or repetition. Art is concerned with the HOW, not the WHAT; not with literal content, but with the performance of the factual content. The performance - how it is done - that is the content of art.