What is real is not the external form, but the essence of things... it is impossible for anyone to express anything essentially real by imitating its exterior surface.

I ground matter to find the continuous line. And when I realized I could not find it, I stopped, as if an unseen someone had slapped my hands.

Why write [about my art]? Why not just show the photographs?

Things are not difficult to make; what is difficult is putting ourselves in the state of mind to make them

The function of art is to make that understood which in the form of argument would be incomprehensible.

Nothing grows well in the shade of a big tree.

What is real is not the external form, but the essence of things... it is impossible for anyone to express anything essentially real by imitating its exterior surface.