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

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

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

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

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.

I do not weep: I loathe tears, for they are a sign of slavery.

Height, width, and depth are the three phenomena which I must transfer into one plane to form the abstract surface of the picture, and thus to protect myself from the infinity of space.