And I started with this: I have not painted at all my childhood. In fact, I never painted. But I helped my father who was a house painter and decorative painter. He made stage sets, he made glass paintings, he made everything. |
I was for years in the yellow period, you know. |
You see, I have in my teaching - I always say I've done it for a hundred years and have had thousands of students - I have always spoken against just falling onto your knees for so-called accidents, I mean a result you are not responsible for. |
I prefer to see with closed eyes. |
I was at the Royal Art School. That was a preparatory school specially for art teachers. You see, it was not so much for the development of artists. But we had there terribly stiff training. |
I've handled colour as a man should behave. You may conclude that I consider ethics and aesthetics as one. |
Abstraction is real, probably more real than nature. |
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. |
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. Topics: Art |
In Italy the artist is a god. Now if the artist is a god, the scientist is likewise a god. |
Traditionally art is to create and not to revive. To revive: leave that to the historians, who are looking backward. Topics: Art |
I count all the time on resonance. I call on this, you see. |
It was my family that wanted me to be a teacher. That was safe, you see. To be a painter was terrible. |
I'm not a talker. I'm a formulator. |
Any ground subtracts its own hue from the colors which it carries and therefore influences. |
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. |
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. |
I have taught my students not to apply rules or mechanical ways of seeing. |
Ah, the creative process is the same secret in science as it is in art. They are all the same absolutely. |
My father's parents were carpenters. They were also builders partly. They were painters. And several of them were very, active in the theatre and all such nonsense, you know. |