I believe that painting should come through the avenues of meditation rather than the canals of action..

On pavements and the bark of trees I have found whole worlds..

Now it seems to me that we are in a universalising period... If we are to have world peace, we should have an understanding of all the idioms of beau….

Every artist's problem today is: What will we do with the human?.

I've tried to decentralize and interpenetrate so that all parts of a painting are of related value..

An artist must find his expression closely linked to his individual experience or else follow in the old grooves resulting in lifeless forms..

I am accused often of too much experimentation.., but what else should I do when all other factors of man are in the same condition. I thrust forward….

There has been 32 isms since the advent of cubism, yet after all there are essentially the same two old strings, the Romantic and the Classical. We'v….

The search for an equilibrium is essential for the artist, to be as aware of inner space as he is of outer space..

The dimension that counts for the creative person is the space he creates within himself. This inner space is closer to the infinite than the other, ….

Sitting on the floor of a room in Japan, looking out on a small garden with flowers blooming and dragonflies hovering in space, I suddenly felt as if….

The Cubists used the figure, but they broke it up..

White lines in movement symbolize a unifying idea which flows through the compartmented units of life bringing the consciousness of a larger relativi….

According to one critic, my works looked like scraped billboards. I went to look at the billboards and decided that more billboards should be scraped..

Don't help the young too much — it will just weaken them and they'll resent it, and finally start avoiding you..

Reality must be expressed by a physical symbol..

We look at the mountain to see the painting, then we look at the painting to see the mountain..

But there was escape, too, even in those days, for there was Whistler living in the grey mists with a faded orange moon. The nocturne transformed its….

At a time when experimentation expresses itself in all forms of life, search becomes the only valid expression of the spirit..

We all feel a separateness; we wish that a drop of water would soften our ego; the world needs a common conscience: agreement... we must concentrate ….

Problems are an important part of maturing--meet them straight on. Work them out. It's like the chick in the egg. It has to break through the eggshel….