In the final analysis, a drawing simply is no longer a drawing, no matter how self-sufficient its execution may be. It is a symbol, and the more profoundly the imaginary lines of projection meet higher dimensions, the better.

I want to be as though newborn. To be almost primitive.

A drawing is simply a line going for a walk.

Democracy with its semi-civilization sincerely cherishes junk. The artists power should be spiritual. But the power of the majority is material. When these worlds meet occasionally, it is pure coincidence.

Everything vanishes round me and good works rise from me of their own accord.

The painter should not paint what he sees, but what will be seen.

He neither serves nor rules, he transmits. His position is humble and the beauty at the crown is not his own. He is merely a channel.