The freer the soul, the more abstract painting becomes.

When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God-made object up to it

Color is all. When color is right, form is right. Color is everything, color is vibration like music; everything is vibration.

Color is vibration like music; everything is vibration.

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.

Art seems to me to be above all a state of soul. All souls are sacred, the soul of all the bipeds in every quarter of the globe.

Mine alone is the country of my soul.