There is no art without contemplation.

It seems to me that before a man tries to express anything to the world he must recognize in himself an individual, a new one, very distinct from others.

Personal experimentation is revealing, and once you get into it, immensely engaging.

Perhaps whatever there is in my work that may be really interesting to others and surely what is interesting to me, is the result of a sometimes successful effort to free myself from any idea that what I produce must be art.

Whatever you feel or think your exact state at the exact moment of your brush touching the canvas is in some way registered in that stroke.

A Curve does not exist in its full power until contrasted with a straight line.

Painting should never look as if it were done with difficulty, however difficult it may actually have been.