You can't be at the pole and the equator at the same time. You must choose your own line, as I hope to do, and it will probably be color.

It is not only by one's impulses that one achieves greatness, but also by patiently filing away the steel wall that separates what one feels from what one is capable of doing.

We feel lonely now and then and long for friends and think we should be quite different and happier if we found a friend of whom we might say: “He is the one.” But you, too, will begin to learn that there is much self-deception behind this longing; if we yielded too much to it, it would lead us from the road.

Many painters are afraid of the blank canvas, but the blank canvas is afraid of the truly passionate painter who dares-and who has once broken the spell of 'you can't.'

Rembrandt is so deeply mysterious that he says things for which there are no words in any language.

Christ is more of an artist than the artists; he works in the living spirit and the living flesh, he makes men instead of statues.

There are colors which cause each other to shine brilliantly, which form a couple which complete each other like man and woman.