What are you? What am I? Those are the questions that constantly persecute and torment me and perhaps also play some part in my art.

What matters is real love for things of the world outside us and for the deep secrets within us.

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

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

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 believe the reason I love painting so much is that it forces one to be objective.

There is nothing I hate more than sentimentality.