1. “To understand the magic way of thinking you have to know non-magic thinking. If you see that clearly, you will see that clearly, you will see how many magic thoughts are necessary elements even of natural science today.”
2. “I act with full responsibility and after extensive reflection.”
3. “To get anywhere, one must choose one’s mistakes, I chose experimental acts”
4. “We cannot inherit a fixed, unmoving view o life and of art from the past generation.”
5. “To make the material speak to man in the name of man, this is the aim and reality of art.”
6. “True realism lies in the search for the expression of forms faithful to their content. But there is no content detached from human interest.”
7. “We are not talking about a new cognition in relation to abstract art, rather a new area of cognition.”
8. “To break and be able to grow together again in a better way that is the difficult art.”
9. “Being an artist is being an isolated individual.”
10. “Anything really new is repulsive, because it is abnormal and unreasonable.”
11. “We are the sparks hat must glow as brightly as possible.”
12. “The act of expressing oneself is a physical one. It materializes the thought.”
13. “During every really creative act, the artist finds himself homeless. To overcome this state he has to call up his last reserves of strength.”
14. “The goal changes from the general to the individual from need to wish, from ethics to aesthetics.”
15. “A creative train of thought is set off by: the unexpected, the unknown, the accidental, the disorderly the absurd, the impossible.”
