As soon as we start putting our thoughts into words and sentences everything gets distorted, language is just no damn good—I use it because I have to, but I don’t put any trust in it. We never understand each other.

All this twaddle, the existence of God, atheism, determinism, liberation, societies, death, etc., are pieces of a chess game called language, and they are amusing only if one does not preoccupy oneself with 'winning or losing this game of chess.

Alchemy is a kind of philosophy: a kind of thinking that leads to a way of understanding.

I was highly attracted to chess for forty or forty-five years; then, little by little, my enthusiasm lessened.

Artists of all times are like the gamblers of Monte Carlo, and this blind lottery allows some to succeed and ruins others. In my opinion, neither the winners nor the losers are worth worrying about.

What art is, in reality, is this missing link, not the links which exist. It's not what you see that is art; art is the gap.