Ever since my childhood, I was haunted by the search for perfection. An imperfectly cut paper literally made me ill. I would guillotine it.

The essence of a sculpture must enter on tip-toe, as light as animal footprints on snow.

The important thing about Dada, it seems to me, is that Dadaists despised what is commonly regarded as art, but put the whole universe on the lofty throne of art.

DaDa is beautiful like the night, who cradles the young day in her arms.

The vertical and the horizontal are the extreme signs available to man for touching the beyond and his inwardness.

We do not wish to imitate nature, we do not wish to reproduce. We want to produce. We want to produce the way a plant produces its fruit, not depict. We want to produce directly, not indirectly. Since there is not a trace of abstraction in this art we call it concrete art.

I allow myself to be guided by the work which is in the process of being born. I have confidence in it. I do not think about it.