A work of art is the trace of a magnificent struggle.

• When the artist is alive in any person, whatever his kind of work may be, he becomes an inventive, searching, daring, self-expressive creature. He becomes interesting to other people. He disturbs, upsets, enlightens, and opens ways for better understanding. Where those who are not artists are trying to close the book, he opens it and shows there are still more pages possible.

An artist must never be a prisoner. Prisoner? An artist should never be a prisoner of himself, prisoner of style, prisoner of reputation, prisoner of success, etc.

The importance of an artist is to be measured by the quantity of new signs which he has introduced to the language of art.

All real works of art look as though they were done in joy.

I am interested in art as a means of living a life; not as a means of making a living.