Painting is a very difficult thing. It absorbs the whole man, body and soul, thus have I passed blindly many things which belong to real and political life.

What I want to show in my work is the idea which hides itself behind so-called reality.

My heart beats more for a raw, average vulgar art, which doesn't live between sleepy fairy-tale moods and poetry but rather concedes a direct entrance to the fearful, commonplace, splendid and the average grotesque banality in life.

I went across the fields to avoid the straight highways, along the firing lines where people were shooting at a small wooded hill, which is now covered with wooden crosses and lines of graves instead of spring flowers.

I am seeking for the bridge which leans from the visible to the invisible through reality.

There is nothing I hate more than sentimentality.

If you wish to get hold of the invisible you must penetrate as deeply as possible into the visible.