To emphasize only the beautiful seems to me to be like a mathematical system that only concerns itself with positive numbers.

A line comes into being. It goes out for a walk, so to speak, aimlessly for the sake of the walk.

See with one eye, feel with the other.

The Biblical story of the creation is an excellent parable of movement. The work of art, too, is above all a process of creation, it is never experienced as a mere product.

I want to be as though new-born, knowing nothing, absolutely nothing. Then I want to do something modest; to work out by myself a tiny, formal motive, one that my pencil will be able to hold without technique.

Drawing is the art of taking a line for a walk.

Art does not reflect what is seen, rather it makes the hidden visible.