The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical comp….

Nature is garrulous to the point of confusion, let the artist be truly taciturn..

It is precisely the way which is productive - this is the essential thing; becoming is more important than being..

My hand has become the obedient instrument of a remote will..

We document, explain, justify, construct, organize: these are good things, but we do not succeed in coming to the whole. But we may as well calm down….

A certain fire pretends to be alive; it awakens. Working its way along the hand as a conductor, it reaches the support and engulfs it; then a leaping….

The beholder's eye, which moves like an animal grazing, follows paths prepared for it in the picture..

Color and I are one. I am a painter..

He has found his style, when he cannot do otherwise..

Gradually compositions make an appearance again. Political - satirical - conceits expressed in one figure or a few..

The artist of today is more than an improved camera, he is more complex, richer, and wider. He is a creature on the earth and a creature within the w….

There is no substitute for intuition..

An active line on a walk, moving freely, without goal. A walk for a walk's sake..

Everything passes, and what remains of former times, what remains of life, is the spiritual. In everything we do, the claim of the Absolute is unchan….

I have a clear view of 12 years of history of my inner self. First the cramped self, that self with big blinkers, then the disappearance of the blink….

In my productive activity, every time a type grows beyond the stage of its genesis, and I have about reached the goal, the intensity gets lost very q….

In earlier times artists liked to show what was actually visible... nowadays we are concerned with reality, rather than the merely visible..

I still come closest to success with drawing. When I use color the results are dubious, for these painfully gained experiences bear less fruit..

Satire must not be a kind of superfluous ill will, but ill will from a higher point of view. Ridiculous man, divine God. Or else, hatred against the ….