You adapt yourself to the contents of the paintbox.

To give emphasis only to beauty makes me think of a mathematics that deals with positive numbers only.

Make chance essential.

All art is a memory of age-old things, dark things, whose fragments live on in the artist.

I want to be as though new-born, knowing nothing, absolutely nothing about Europe.

Each energy calls for its complementary energy to achieve self-contained stability based on the play of energies.

The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions.