1. “The greatest mystery of all is reality.”
2. “I believe the reason I love painting so much is that it forces one to be objective .”
3. “If you wish to get hold of the invisible you must penetrate as deeply a possible into the visible.”
4. “What matters is real love for things of the world outside us and for the deep secrets within us.”
5. “All important things in art have always originated from the deepest feeling about the mystery of Being.”
6. “One of my problems is to find the self.”
7. “I am seeking for the bridge which leans from the visible to the invisible through reality.”
8. “The laws of art are eternal an don’t change at all, as the moral laws don’t change in human beings.”
9. “When spiritual, metaphysical, material, or immaterial events come into my life, I can only fix them by the way of painting.”
10. “There is nothing I hate more than sentimentality.”
11. “I passed blindly many things which belong to real and political life.”
12. “Painting constantly appeared to me as the one and only possible achievement.”
13. “Love in an animal sense is an illness, but a necessity which one has to overcome.”
14. “My figures come and go, suggested by fortune or misfortune. I try to fix them divested of their apparent accidental quality.”
15. “Space, and space again, is the infinite deity which surrounds us and in which we are ourselves contained.”
