To break and be able to grow together again in a better way: that is the difficult art.

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

You can often give a better description of the fight between people, the essentials of it, by means of fantastic animals, the simple, primitive, naked instincts, than by depicting a specific situation. It is not the human animal we should describe, but ourselves as human animals.

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

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

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

True realism, materialist realism lies in the search for the expression of forms faithful to their content. But there is no content detached from human interest.