There's nothing like sitting back and talking to your cows.
The technical procedures doubtless release energies in the artist that remain unused in the much more lightweight processes of drawing or painting (remark on printmaking).
A painter paints the appearance of things, not their objective correctness, in fact he creates new appearances of things.
People become artists out of despair.
It seems as though the goal of my work has always been to dissolve myself completely into the sensations of the surroundings in order to then integrate this into a coherent painterly form.
If suffering can be transformed into creativity. . . I want to try it.
Anyone who directly and honestly reproduces that force which impels him to create belongs to us.
False principles, which correspond with the bad as well as with the just aspirations of mankind, are a normal and necessary element in the social life of nations.
Only the fire of life can melt the chains of death.
There are no borders in this fight to the death; we cannot be indifferent to what is happening in any part of the world.
When we fully realize who God is, we learn that each of us is a child of the King!