Life obliges me to do something, so I paint.

An object is not so attached to its name that we cannot find another one that would suit it better.

Do not accept any explanation of the world either through chance or determinism. You are not responsible for your belief. It is not even you who decides that you are not responsible - and so on to infinity. You are not obliged to believe. There is no point of departure.

My investigations resembled the pursuit of the solution to a problem for which I had three data: the object, the thing connected with it in the shadow of my consciousness, and the light wherein that thing would become apparent.

I need to see the original paintings just as little as I have to read the original manuscripts of books.

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.

Only thought can resemble. It resembles by being what it sees, hears, or knows; it becomes what the world offers it.