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

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.

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

If the image was sketched onto the canvas and spontaneously drawn, colour would often be restrained and unfree... The most important and the most difficult liberation process we went trough, the one that has distinguished our art, was the freeing of colour, the transition to a painterly spontaneity.

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

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.