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Color deceives continuously.
I prefer to see with closed eyes.
I love very much to draw animals.
I'm not a talker. I'm a formulator.
A thing is never seen as it really is.
I have invented the Thermometer style.
Thus art is not an object, it is an experience.
Art is concerned with the HOW and not the WHAT.
I was for years in the yellow period, you know.
I think Kandinsky and I were very near friends.
One line plus one line results in many meanings.
Art problems are problems of human relationship.
I paint the way I spread butter on pumpernickel.
What has been said does not simply belong to us.
We never really perceive what color is physically!
Abstraction is real, probably more real than nature.
It's the only dish I serve my craziness for color in.
A painter paints because he has no time not to paint.
I want color and form to have contradictorily functions.
If you don't do it my way, I suggest you commit suicide.
I count all the time on resonance. I call on this, you see.
The purpose of art is to re-present nature, not represent it.
I have taught my students not to apply rules or mechanical ways of seeing.
Good teaching is more a giving of right questions than a giving of right answers.
Color is like cooking. The cook puts in more or less salt, that's the difference!
Therefore art means: you have to believe, to have faith, that is, cultivate vision.
In Italy the artist is a god. Now if the artist is a god, the scientist is likewise a god.
Any ground subtracts its own hue from the colors which it carries and therefore influences.
In order to use color effectively it is necessary to recognize that color deceives continually.
Simultaneous contrast is not just a curious optical phenomenon - it is the very heart of painting.
It was my family that wanted me to be a teacher. That was safe, you see. To be a painter was terrible.
Ah, the creative process is the same secret in science as it is in art. They are all the same absolutely.
I've handled colour as a man should behave. You may conclude that I consider ethics and aesthetics as one.
The role of art for me is the visualization of attitude, of the human attitude towards life, towards the world.
Traditionally art is to create and not to revive. To revive: leave that to the historians, who are looking backward.
We never really perceive what color really is, as it physically is. This fact makes color the most relative medium in art.
Easy-to know that diamonds-are precious, Good-to learn that rubies-have depth, But more-to see that pebbles-are miraculous.
Every perception of color is an illusion, we do not see colors as they really are. In our perception they alter one another.
In my basic courses I have always tried to develop discovery and invention which, in my opinion, are the criteria of creativeness.
Whether something 'has color' or not is as hard to define verbally as are such questions as, 'What is music?' or 'What is musical?
Independent of harmony rules, any color 'goes' or 'works' with any other color, presupposing that their quantities are appropriate.
There is no difference between science and art when it comes to creativeness, productiveness, to come to conclusions and to formulations.
In visual perception a color is almost never seen as it really is - as it physically is. This fact makes color the most relative medium in art.
As we do not see squares in nature, I thought that it is man-made. But I have corrected myself. Because squares exist in salt crystals, our daily salt.
The aim of our studies is to prove that color is the most relative means of artistic expression, that we never really perceive what color is physically.
Repeated similar experiments with adjacent colors will show that any ground subtracts its own hue from colors which it carries and therefore influences.
Instead of art I have taught philosophy. Though technique for me is a big word, I never have taught how to paint. All my doing was to make people to see.
When we were in the seminary we got a stipend direct from the government and for that stipend we had an obligation to stick to our teaching job for five years.
On the little money I had collected I lived in Berlin very cheaply, ate very cheaply. And already in 1920 I saved the first salaries I received to go to Munich.
When we are honest - that's my saying - if we are honest then we will reveal ourselves. But we do not have to make an effort to be individualistic, different from others.