Modern art spreads joy around by its color, which calms us.
The use of expressive colors is felt to be one of the basic elements of the modern mentality, an historical necessity, beyond choice.
Simple colours can affect the intimate feelings with all the more force because they are simple.
The importance of an artist is to be measured by the quantity of new signs which he has introduced to the language of art.
A work of art must carry in itself its complete significance and impose it upon the beholder even before he can identify the subject-matter...
If drawing belongs to the world of spirit and color to that of the senses, you must draw first to cultivate the spirit.
One gets into a state of creativity by conscious work.
All my efforts go into creating an art that can be understood by everyone.
The role of the artist, like that of the scholar, consists of seizing current truths often repeated to him, but which will take on new meaning for him and which he will make his own when he has grasped their deepest significance.
Creation is the artist’s true function; where there is no creation there is no art.
Art is an escape from reality.
All art worthy of the name is religious.
Beauty comes from the balance between two and three dimensions, between abstraction and representation – I seek the equilibrium behind changing appearances.
Hatred is a parasite that devours all. One doesn’t build upon hatred, but upon love.
One must, of course, have one’s entire experience behind one and not have lost the freshness of instinct.
I simply try to put down colors which render my sensation.
The wall around the window does not create two worlds.
What’s so astonishing about not understanding? There are so many things in art, beginning with art itself, that one doesn’t understand. A painter doesn’t see everything that he has put in his painting.
Perhaps I might be satisfied, momentarily, with a work finished at one sitting, but I would soon get bored looking at it; therefore, I prefer to continue working on it so that later I may recognize it as a work of my mind.
The sign for which I forge an image has no value if it doesn’t harmonize with other signs, which I must determine in the course of my invention and which are completely peculiar to it.