Beauty is as relative as light and dark. Thus, there exists no beautiful woman, none at all, because you are never certain that a still far more beautiful woman will not appear and completely shame the supposed beauty of the first.

Each energy calls for its complementary energy to achieve self-contained stability based on the play of energies.

Color has got me. I no longer need to chase after it. It has got me for ever. I know it. That is the meaning of this happy hour.

The more horrible this world (as today, for instance), the more abstract our art, whereas a happy world brings forth an art of the here and now.

When looking at any significant work of art, remember that a more significant one probably has had to be sacrificed.

There is no substitute for intuition.

You adapt yourself to the contents of the paintbox.