"I don’t paint things. I only paint the difference between things."

"I am as curious about color as one would be visiting a new country, because I have never concentrated so closely on color expression. Up to now I have waited at the gates of the temple."

"My destination is always the same: a new creation."

"I have never left the straight path, but I have always tried to follow my own way."

"Instinct must be thwarted just as one prunes the branches of a tree so that it will grow better."