I count all the time on resonance. I call on this, you see.
Apprentice is the beginner - the first years you work in a craft in the European sense you are an apprentice. That takes 3 or 4 years. Then you are a journeyman. You can go from one master to another and learn other tricks and other secrets.
I was for years in the yellow period, you know.
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.
In Italy the artist is a god. Now if the artist is a god, the scientist is likewise a god.
It was my family that wanted me to be a teacher. That was safe, you see. To be a painter was terrible.
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.
I'm not a talker. I'm a formulator.
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 think Kandinsky and I were very near friends.
I love very much to draw animals.
I have invented the Thermometer style.
