Nature, my dear sir, is only a hypothesis.
France has lived a long time - eight or nine centuries - and yet art in France, too, was derivative up until the 19th Century.
I paint is the way I see things with my eyes and in my heart.
My eyes were made to erase all that is ugly.
American art, like America, must wait and live a while longer.
Blue is the only color which maintains its own character in all its tones it will always stay blue; whereas yellow is blackened in its shades, and fades away when lightened; red when darkened becomes brown, and diluted with white is no longer red, but another color – pink.