Art is not made for anybody and is, at the same time, for everybody.

The truly modern artist is aware of abstraction in an emotion of beauty.

It is a task of art to express clear vision of reality.

I hate everything approaching temperamental inspiration,'sacred fire'and all those attributes of genius which serve only as cloaks for untidy minds.

I don't want pictures, I want to find things out.

If you follow nature you will not be able to vanquish the tragic in any real degree in your art... We must free ourselves from our attachment to the external, for only then do we transcend the tragic, and are enabled consciously to contemplate the repose which is within all things.

The more basic the color, the more inward, the more pure.