"My drawings are sometimes hard to understand, but they are not difficult to make if you know how to draw."

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

"Composition is the art of arranging in a decorative manner the various elements at the painter's disposal for the expression of his feelings."

"Seek the essential, but do not necessarily destroy the ornament."

"My choice of colors is not based on any scientific theory; it is based on observation, on feeling, on the very nature of the experience."