A Painter Paints Because He Has No

I Have Taught My Students Not To Apply Rules Or Mechanical Ways Of Seeing.

To Design Is To Plan And To Organize, To Order, To Relate And To Control. In Short It Embraces All Means Of Opposing Disorder And Accident. Therefore It Signifies A Human Need And Qualifies Man’s Thinking And Doing.

I Think Art Parallels Life; It Is Not A Report On Nature Or On Intimate Disclosure Of Inner Secrets. Color, In My Opinion, Behaves Like Man -- In Two Distinct Ways: First In Self-realization And Then In The Realization Of Relationships With Others.

Simultaneous Contrast Is Not Just A Curious Optical Phenomenon – It Is The Very Heart Of Painting. Repeated Experiments With Adjacent Colors Will Show That Any Ground Subtracts Its Own Hue From The Colors Which It Carries And Therefore Influences.

I Was For Years In The Yellow Period, You Know.