1. “Art to me is an anecdote of the spirit, and the only means of making concrete the purpose of its varied quickness and stillness.”
2. “If you are moved only by the color relationships, then you miss the point.”
3. “It is really matter of ending this silence and solitude, of breathing and stretching one’s arms again.”
4. “A painting is not a picture of an experience but is the experience.”
5. “To me art is an adventure into an unknown world, which can be explored only by those willing to take the risk.”
6. “This world of the imagination is fancy- free and violently opposed to common sense.”
7. “Pictures must be miraculous: the instant one is completed, the intimacy between the creation and the creator is ended.”
8. “There is more power in telling little than in telling all.”
9. “Without monsters and gods, art cannot enact a drama.”
10. “There is only one thing I fear in life, my friend: One day, the black will swallow the red.”
11. “There is no such thing as good painting about nothing.”
12. “Many of those who are driven to this life are desperately searching for those pockets of silence where we can root and row.”
13. “My art is not abstract, it lives and breathes.”
14. “Silence is so accurate.”
15. “The people that weep before my paintings are having the same religious experience that I had when I painted it.”
