To get anywhere, one must choose one's mistakes, I chose experimental acts.

Everything is in constant flux, from state to state, from good to bad and back again... only in transmutation, perpetual motion, lies truth.

A creative train of thought is set off by: the unexpected, the unknown, the accidental, the disorderly, the absurd, the impossible.

We are not disillusioned because we have no illusions... What we have and what is our strength, is our joy in life... in all its amoral aspects. That is also the basis of our contemporary art.

Beautiful, ugly, impressive, disgusting, meaningless, grim, contradictory etc … It makes no difference, as long as it is life, vigorously pouring forth.

We are sparks that must glow as brightly as possible.

To break and be able to grow together again in a better way: that is the difficult art.

The significance of something lies in its presence here and now. I don't care what it has been or what it will become. It is the experience of things that matters, the confrontation with things.

Being an artist is being an isolated individual.

To make the material speak to man in the name of man, this is the aim and reality of art.

The artist's interest cannot be restricted to a single field; he must seek the highest perception of everything, of the whole and its details.

Don't ask God to cram His plan into your puny little mind, because then God would be limited by your understanding.

The birth of science rang the death-knell of an arbitrary and constantly interposing Supreme Power.

If things continue like this, the history of our age may one day be written under a caliphate's supervision .

In time of war all countries behave equally badly, because the power of action is handed over to stupid and obstinate men.

It's good to have critics because that's what motivates you and helps you take your game to another level.

It doesn't matter that you didn't believe in us," said Mr. Ibis. "We believed in you.

People can be motivated to creativity simply with the instruction to "be creative."

You can change the world. Please don't do that, OK? Some of us like the way things are going now.

A clear understanding of negative emotions dismisses them.

Oh, don't the days seem lank and long When all goes right and nothing goes wrong, And isn't your life extremely flat With nothing whatever to grumble at!