The stronger and more intense my desire becomes to capture and record that which is unsayable, the more tightly my mouth stays shut.

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

All important things in art have always originated from the deepest feeling about the mystery of Being.

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.

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

My figures come and go, suggested by fortune or misfortune. I try to fix them divested of their apparent accidental quality.

The important thing is first of all to have a real love for the visible world that lies outside ourselves as well as to know the deep secret of what goes on within ourselves.