Nature can afford to be prodigal in everything, the artist must be frugal down to the last detail. Nature is garrulous to the point of confusion, let….

You adapt yourself to the contents of the paintbox..

Every artist would like to live in the central organ of creation... Not all are destined to get there... but our beating hearts drive us deep down, r….

Polyphonic painting is superior to music in that there, the time element becomes a spatial element. The notion of simultaneity stands out even more r….

Kunst gibt nicht das Sichtbare wieder, sondern macht sichtbar. Art does not reproduce the visible; rather it makes visible..

I want to be as though new-born, knowing nothing, absolutely nothing. Then I want to do something modest; to work out by myself a tiny, formal motive….

A line comes into being. It goes out for a walk, so to speak, aimlessly for the sake of the walk..

The pictorial work was born of movement, is itself recorded movement, and is assimilated through movement (eye muscles)..

Art makes something a lot more visible or audible..

One does not lash hat lies at a distance. The foibles that we ridicule must at least be a little bit our own. Only then will the work be a part of ou….

A tendency toward the abstract is inherent in linear expression: graphic imagery being confined to outlines has a fairy-like quality and at the same ….

The longer a line, the more of the time element it contains. Distance is time whereas a surface is apprehended more in terms of the moment..

I must begin, not with hypothesis, but with specific instances, no matter how minute..

Be winged arrows aiming at fulfillment and goal..

Color is the place where our brain and the universe meet..

I still come closest to success with drawing..

To give emphasis only to beauty makes me think of a mathematics that deals with positive numbers only..

Art should be like a holiday: something to give a man the opportunity to see things differently and to change his point of view..

Like people, a picture has a skeleton, muscles and skin..

Art does not reproduce the visible; it makes visible..

It is the artistic mission to penetrate as far as may be toward that secret ground where primal law feeds growth..