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

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.

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

When spiritual, metaphysical, material, or immaterial events come into my life, I can only fix them by way of painting.

I am seeking for the bridge which leans from the visible to the invisible through reality.

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.