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

Satire must not be a kind of superfluous ill will, but ill will from a higher point of view. Ridiculous man, divine God. Or else, hatred against the bogged-down vileness of average man as against the possible heights that humanity might attain.

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.

You adapt yourself to the contents of the paintbox.

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

Art should be like a holiday: something to give a man the opportunity to see things differently and to change his point of view.

One day I will lie nowhere with an angel at my side.