If the image was sketched onto the canvas and spontaneously drawn, colour would often be restrained and unfree... The most important and the most dif….

In the beginning was the image..

During every really creative act, the artist finds himself homeless. To overcome this state he has to call up his last reserves of strength..

We are sparks that must glow as brightly as possible..

Everything is in constant flux, from state to state, from good to bad and back again... only in transmutation, perpetual motion, lies truth..

We are not disillusioned because we have no illusions... What we have and what is our strength, is our joy in life... in all its amoral aspects. That….

To make the material speak to man in the name of man, this is the aim and reality of art..

We cannot inherit a fixed, unmoving view of life and of art from the past generation..

I act with full responsibility and after extensive reflection..

You can often give a better description of the fight between people, the essentials of it, by means of fantastic animals, the simple, primitive, nake….

If you add something to a painting, never let it be for aesthetic reasons. Only let it be for reasons of expression..

The act of expressing oneself is a physical one. It materializes the thought..

A creative train of thought is set off by: the unexpected, the unknown, the accidental, the disorderly, the absurd, the impossible..

The significance of something lies in its presence here and now. I don't care what it has been or what it will become. It is the experience of things….

This is what aesthetics, development and progress depend upon: that we go out on thin ice..

We like to learn all we need from earlier generations, but we have to find out for ourselves what we need; nobody else can do that for us..

Anything really new is repulsive, because it is abnormal and unreasonable..

We have defined art as the life form and aesthetic art as the life renewal: the stimulating, animating, agitating, inspiring, inspirational, fermenti….

There can be no question of selecting in any direction, but of penetrating the whole cosmic law of rhythms, forces and material that are the real wor….

The artistic formulae wear thin quickly and yet daily the artist - when developing his own foundation - must enter his own time and the problems of o….

Those who try to combat the production of shoddy pictures are enemies of the best art today... It always feels tragic to see people labouring to saw ….