Artist Quotes

In visual perception a color is almost never seen as it really is - as it physically is. This fact makes color the most relative medium in art.

If you don't do it my way, I suggest you commit suicide.

I've handled colour as a man should behave. You may conclude that I consider ethics and aesthetics as one.

I'm not a talker. I'm a formulator.

I prefer to see with closed eyes.

Apprentice is the beginner - the first years you work in a craft in the European sense you are an apprentice. That takes 3 or 4 years. Then you are a journeyman. You can go from one master to another and learn other tricks and other secrets.

And I started with this: I have not painted at all my childhood. In fact, I never painted. But I helped my father who was a house painter and decorative painter. He made stage sets, he made glass paintings, he made everything.

Abstraction is real, probably more real than nature.