I want nevertheless to add that for me the world is a defiance of common sense.

People who look for symbolic meaning fail to grasp the inherent poetry and mystery of the images.

My painting is visible images that conceal nothing... they evoke mystery. Mystery means nothing. It is unknowable.

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

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!

We are surrounded by curtains. We only perceive the world behind a curtain of semblance. At the same time, an object needs to be covered in order to be recognized at all.

I think we are responsible for the universe, but that doesn't mean we decide anything.