The eye is the most refined of our senses, the one which communicates most directly with our mind, our consciousness.

It is this research into pure painting that is the problem at the present moment. I do not know any painters in Paris who are really searching for this ideal world.

First of all, I always see the sun! The way I want to identify myself and others is with halos here and there halos, movements of color. And that, I believe, is rhythm.

Art in Nature is rhythmic and has a horror of constraint.

Human vision is endowed with the greatest Reality, since it comes to us directly from the contemplation of the Universe.

I say it is indispensable to look ahead of and behind oneself in the present. If there is such a thing as tradition, and I believe there is, it can only exist in the sense of the most profound movements of culture.

Our understanding is correlative to our perception.