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

Art does not reproduce the visible; it makes visible.

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.

For the understanding of a picture a chair is needed. Why a chair? To prevent the legs, as they tire, from interfering with the mind

There is no substitute for intuition.

The artist of today is more than an improved camera, he is more complex, richer, and wider. He is a creature on the earth and a creature within the whole, that is, a creature on a star among stars.

It is the artistic mission to penetrate as far as may be toward that secret ground where primal law feeds growth.