Of all the arts, abstract painting is the most difficult. It demands that you know how to draw well, that you have a heightened sensitivity for composition and for colors, and that you be a true poet. This last is essential.

Every artist, as child of his age, is impelled to express the spirit of his age.

Orange is red brought nearer to humanity by yellow.

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

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

All methods are sacred if they are internally necessary. All methods are sins if they are not justified by internal necessity.

Color transmits and translates emotion.