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

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

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.

In the beginning was the image.

Beautiful, ugly, impressive, disgusting, meaningless, grim, contradictory etc … It makes no difference, as long as it is life, vigorously pouring forth.

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.

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