I feel shame, not for the wrong things I have done, but for the right things that I have failed to do.

The artist performs only one part of the creative process. The onlooker completes it, and it is the onlooker who has the last word.

The creative act is not performed by the artist alone; the spectator brings the work in contact with the external world by deciphering and interpreting its inner qualifications and thus adds his contribution to the creative act.

Living is more a question of what one spends than what one makes.

I am still a victim of chess. It has all the beauty of art - and much more. It cannot be commercialized. Chess is much purer than art in its social position.

Chess is a sport. A violent sport.

I was interested in ideas, not merely visual products. I wanted to put painting once again at the service of the mind.