All painting - the painting of the past as well as of the present - shows us that its essential plastic means were only line and color.

What is natural does not have to be a representation of something. I'm now working on a thing that is a reconstruction of a starry sky, and yet I'm making it without a given from nature. Someone who says he uses a theme from nature can be right, but also someone who says he uses nothing at all.

Everything is expressed through RELATIONSHIPS.

The position of the artist is humble. He is essentially a channel.

I, too, find the flower beautiful in its outward appearance. But a deeper beauty lies concealed within.

The only problem in art is to achieve a balance between the subjective and the objective.

All painting - the painting of the past as well as of the present - shows us that its essential plastic means were only line and color.