1. “To create is not to deform or invent persons and things. It is to tie new relationships between persons and things which are, and as they are.”
2. “Practice the precept: find without seking.”
3. “The point is not to direct someone, but to direct oneself.”
4. “Empty the pond to get the fish.”
5. “Prefer what intuition whispers in your ear to what you have done and redone ten times is your head.”
6. “Ideally, nothing should be shown, but that’s impossible.”
7. “When you do not know what you are doing and what you are doing is the best – that is inspiration.”
8. “When a sound can replace an image, cut the image or neutralize it. The ear goes more towards the within, the eye towards the outer.”
9. “An old thing becomes new if you detach it from what usually surrounds it.”
10. “Be the first to see what you see as you see it.”
11. “Provoke the unexpected. Expect it.”
12. “Laugh at a bad reputation. Fear a good one that you could not sustain.”
13. “Hide the ideas, but so that people find them. The most important will be the most hidden.”
14. “The true is inimitable, the false untransformable.”
15. “Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen.”
