There is something evocative about the idea of destruction. This act of destruction is the expression of an idea... that what we call reality is not ….

When I talk of reality, I am always thinking of essentials. Profundity is not located in some remote, inaccessible region. It is rooted in everyday l….

To achieve contact with reality is not to transport oneself elsewhere, it is not transcendence but thorough immersion in one's surroundings. A realit….

They were wrestling with canvases, using violent colors and huge brush strokes. I arrived with gray, silent, sober, oppressed paintings. One critic s….

I never view aesthetic ideas as having an existence purely of their own but as a function they have in connection with political or moral values..

I feel the desire, or rather the intense need, to do something useful for society, and that is what stimulates me. In every situation I always look f….

An image means nothing. It is just a door, leading to the next door. It will never happens that we will find the truth we are looking for just in an ….

The artist has to make the viewer understand that his world is too narrow, he has to open up to new perspectives..

I often told the fanatics of realism that there is no such thing as realism in art: it only exists in the mind of the observer. Art is a symbol, a th….

With my work I attempt to help man to overcome his alienation; I do this by surrounding his daily life with objects, which confront him in a tactile ….

Art should startle the viewer into thinking about the meaning of life..

Reminding people what in reality it is all about, giving them a theme on which to ponder, creating a shock within them, pulling them out of the delus….