Every real nation is a people of a common blood and descended from the same ancestors. A nation - from the Latin word meaning to be born - can have n…

- Sam Francis

Color is born of the interpenetration of light and dark.

- Sam Francis

The personal lives of painters are tragic and inevitable and do not explain the artist. For the artist is his work and no longer human.

- Sam Francis

An increase in light gives an increase in darkness.

- Sam Francis

Painting is about the beauty of space and the power of containment.

- Sam Francis