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.

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

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

Love in an animal sense is an illness, but a necessity which one has to overcome.

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.

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

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