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

One of my problems is to find the self.

Space, and space again, is the infinite deity which surrounds us and in which we are ourselves contained.

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

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

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!