France has lived a long time - eight or nine centuries - and yet art in France, too, was derivative up until the 19th Century.
My eyes were made to erase all that is ugly.
American art, like America, must wait and live a while longer.
I don't follow any system. All the laws you can lay down are only so many props to be cast aside when the hour of creation arrives.
The subject itself is of no account; what matters is the way it is presented.
Blue is the only color that maintains its own character in all its tones…it will always stay blue.