Those who become entangled in these false ideas are prevented from perceiving the Integral Oneness.

Everything that is visible hides something that is invisible.

The famous pipe. How people reproached me for it! And yet, could you stuff my pipe? No, it's just a representation, is it not? So if I had written on my picture “This is a pipe”, I'd have been lying!

Each thing we see hides something else we want to see.

Visible things can be invisible. However, our powers of thought grasp both the visible and the invisible – and I make use of painting to render thoughts visible.

Everything we see hides another thing, we always want to see what is hidden by what we see. There is an interest in that which is hidden and which the visible does not show us. This interest can take the form of a quite intense feeling, a sort of conflict, one might say, between the visible that is hidden and the visible that is present.

I like subversive humor, freckles, women's knees and long hair, the laughter of playing children, and a girl running down the street.