You cannot explain me with "isms." They are very bad for an artist. What one must believe in is color.

When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God-made object up to it - a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand - as a final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If there's a clash between the two, it's bad art.

I adore the theater and I am a painter. I think the two are made for a marriage of love. I will give all my soul to prove this once more.

If I create from the heart, nearly everything works; if from the head, almost nothing.

The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world. In this long vigil he often has to vary his methods of stimulation; but in this long vigil he is also himself striving against a continual tendency to sleep.

Color is vibration like music; everything is vibration.

If a symbol should be discovered in a painting of mine, it was not my intention. It is a result I did not seek. It is something that may be found afterwards, and which can be interpreted according to taste.