In principle, any abstraction of the object is allowed which has a sufficiently strong creative power behind it.

Art is creative for the sake of realization, not for amusement... for transfiguration, not for the sake of play.

When spiritual, metaphysical, material, or immaterial events come into my life, I can only fix them by way of painting.

Painting constantly appeared to me as the one and only possible achievement.

I think only of objects: of a leg or an arm, of the wonderful sense of foreshortening, breaking through the plane, of the division of space, of the combination of straight lines in relation to curved ones.

There is nothing I hate more than sentimentality.

It was so wonderful outside that even the wild senselessness of this enormous death, whose music I hear again and again, could not disturb me from my great enjoyment!