Color Was Not Given To Us In

The Truly Original Artist Invents His Own Signs.

In The Beginning You Must Subject Yourself To The Influence Of Nature. You Must Be Able To Walk Firmly On The Ground Before You Start Walking On A Tightrope.

I Shan't Get Free Of My Emotion By Copying The Tree Faithfully, Or By Drawing Its Leaves One By One In The Common Language, But Only After Identifying Myself With It.

There Is No Interruption Between My Older Paintings And My Cutouts. Just That With An Increasing Sense Of The Absolute, And More Abstraction, I Have Achieved A Form That Is Simplified To Its Essence.

One Gets Into A State Of Creativity By Conscious Work.