Theories are patterns without value. What counts is action.

When you see a fish you don't think of its scales, do you? You think of its speed, its floating, flashing body seen through the water... If I made fins and eyes and scales, I would arrest its movement, give a pattern or shape of reality. I want just the flash of its spirit.

...That which they call abstract is the most realistic, because what is real is not the exterior but the idea, the essence of things.

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

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

Simplicity is not an objective in art, but one achieves simplicity despite one's self by entering into the real sense of things.

In art, one does not aim for simplicity; one achieves it unintentionally as one gets closer to the real meaning of things.