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

Nothing is confused except the mind.

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.

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

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!

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.

We must not fear daylight just because it almost always illuminates a miserable world.