1. “Pure art exists only on the level of instant response to pure life.”
2. “Nothing is important… so everything is important.”
3. “The best reason to paint is that there is no reason to paint.”
4. “Whatever you do, the only secret is to believe in it and satisfy yourself. Don’t do it for anyone else.”
5. “There is nothing that makes me happier than making a child smile.”
6. “Poems do not necessarily need words. Words do not necessarily make poems.”
7. “Children know something that most people have forgotten.”
8. “Risks are what make the difference between new ideas and re-worked old ideas.”
9. “The destructive element exists in all art, but ultimately is determined only by the ideas of the viewer.”
10. “Nothing is an end because it always can be a basis for something new and different.”
