Art is an experience, not an object.

For twenty years I read a book a day, from the time I was seven until I was twenty-seven.

The main thing is not to be dead.

Painting that does not radiate feeling is not worth looking at. The deepest-and rarest-of grown-up pleasures is true feeling.

Nothing as drastic an innovation as abstract art could have come in to existence, save as the consequence of a most profound, relentless, unquenchable need. The need is for felt experience - intense, immediate, direct, subtle, unified, warm, vivid, rhythmic.

The abstractness of modern art has to do with how much an enlightened mind rejects of the contemporary social order.

Wherever art appears, life disappears.