No doubt, in complete abstraction one has a feeling of a great shock, if not an explosion, and in approaching the real, one feels health and truth restored.

I understand abstract art as an attempt to feed imagination with a world built through the basic sensations of the eyes.

Art is, from any point of view, the greatest of risks.

A mature artist is at the same time aware of the futility of his achievement and the validity of the pursuit.

The image gets built one way or another... it doesn't get done by following the natural order of things, but arises instead from an order that you have in your mind.

Paul Klee seems to handle colors and dreams as if they both came out of a box of children's toys. He plays and dreams with whatever he finds.

A harmonious combination... enough abstraction that the image is sustained by the eye; enough reality that it is sustained by reason and experience. Share this quote with a friend

All each ism does, in its revolt against the inadequacy of the previous one, is to thoroughly upset the order of terms of this ideal entity and to bring to the fore yet another inadequacy.

Sometimes when looking through my pile of drawings, I find an image that... awakens in me a passionate desire to inhabit it, as though I were to feel more at home in it than in myself.

Imaginations blossom amidst memories. One judiciously separates them - but is there really any point in that? Doesn't truth suffer when one amputates it from its context of dreams?

You don't dream about angles and surfaces and so on. You dream about women, bread, smokes and trees.

There are two infinities that confuse me: the one in my soul devours me

You can't get attention of one who focused on himself.

Your children are going through life with their eyes closed, so YOU'RE the one who has to steer.

Joy is love exalted

What delights us in visible beauty is the invisible.

I like my parents but they are just not good parents. They are nice enough people. I'm not interested in hurting their feelings.

When a man knows that the abstraction ten exists - nothing on earth can stop him from looking for the fact of eleven.

The activity of the child has always been looked upon as an expression of his vitality.

We don't think about it, but it has a tremendous effect. But these are things you don't see right in front of your eyes. You need to think about them a little, to see what the consequences are.

I like to hear melodies that go from one extreme to the next- saxophone to a bell to a whistle, for instance.