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

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

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

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.

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.

My heart beats more for a raw, average vulgar art, which doesn't live between sleepy fairy-tale moods and poetry but rather concedes a direct entrance to the fearful, commonplace, splendid and the average grotesque banality in life.

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