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

The more horrible this world (as today, for instance), the more abstract our art, whereas a happy world brings forth an art of the here and now.

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

A line is a dot that went for a walk.

Children also have artistic ability, and there is wisdom in there having it! The more helpless they are, the more instructive are the examples they furnish us; and they must be preserved free of corruption from an early age.

It is a great difficulty and a great necessity to have to start with the smallest.

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.