Black is like the silence of the body after death, the close of life.

The more abstract is form, the more clear and direct its appeal.

Color provokes a psychic vibration. Color hides a power still unknown but real, which acts on every part of the human body.

I applied streaks and blobs of colors onto the canvas with a palette knife, and I made them sing with all the intensity I could.

Absolute green is the most restful color, lacking any undertone of joy, grief, or passion. On exhausted men this restfulness has a beneficial effect, but after a time it becomes tedious.

In general, therefore, color is a means of exerting a direct influence upon the soul. Color is the keyboard. The eye is the hammer. The soul is the piano with its many strings. The artist is the hand that purposefully sets the soul vibrating by means of this or that key.

It is essential that the painter should develop not only his eyes, but also his soul, so that it too may be capable of weighing colors in balance.