The main thing is not to be dead.

Art is an experience, not an object.

Without ethical consciousness, a painter is only a decorator.

A main part of the struggle of art has been to make an art that is direct, simple, humane, unconnected with powers that be in their essence... To the degree that it is connected with the bourgeoisie via the marketplace and so on is not necessarily an artist's problem.

It's not that the creative act and the critical act are simultaneous. It's more like you blurt something out and then analyze it.

Painting is a medium in which the mind can actualize itself; it is a medium of thought. Thus painting, like music, tends to become its own content.

Painting that does not radiate feeling is not worth looking at. The deepest-and rarest-of grown-up pleasures is true feeling.