If you could say it in words there would be no reason to paint..

What I wanted to do was to paint sunlight on the side of a house..

The question of the value of nationality in art is perhaps unsolvable..

So much of every art is an expression of the subconscious that it seems to me most of all the important qualities are put there unconsciously, and li….

The idea (for the painting 'Room in New York', 1932, ed.) had been in my mind a long time before I painted it. It was suggested by glimpses of lighte….

One of the weaknesses of much abstract painting is the attempt to substitute the inventions of the intellect for a pristine imaginative conception. T….

I find in working always the disturbing intrusion of elements not a part of my most interested vision, and the inevitable obliteration and replacemen….

There is a sort of elation about sunlight on the upper part of a house..

I once got a little camera to use for details of architecture and so forth but the photo was always so different from the perspective the eye gives, ….

After all, we are not French and never can be, and any attempt to be so is to deny our inheritance and to try to impose upon ourselves a character th….

It's (the lack of communication between the people in his paintings, ed.) probably a reflection of my own, if I may say, loneliness. I don't know. It….

My aim in painting has always been the most exact transcription possible of my most intimate impression of nature..

More of me comes out when I improvise..

In general it can be said that a nation's art is greatest when it most reflects the character of its people..

I guess I'm not very human. All I really want to do is paint light on the side of a house..

To me the most important thing is the sense of going on. You know how beautiful things are when you're traveling..

The only quality that endures in art is a personal vision of the world. Methods are transient: personality is enduring..

The only real influence I've ever had was myself..

No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination..

Great art is the outward expression of an inner life in the artist, and this inner life will result in his personal vision of the world..

I have tried to present my sensations in what is the most congenial and impressive form possible to me..