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

It is not so for art in appreciation because art is concerned with human behavior. And science is concerned with the behavior of metal or energy. It depends on what the fashion is. Now today it's energy. It's the same soul behind it. The same soul, you see.

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

I have invented the Thermometer style.

We never really perceive what color really is, as it physically is. This fact makes color the most relative medium in art.

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.

As basic rules of a language must be practiced continually, and therefore are never fixed, so exercises toward distinct color effects never are done or over. New and different cases will be discovered time and again.