A work of art must carry within itself its complete significance and impose that upon the beholder before he recognises the subject matter.

There is an impelling proportion of tones that may lead me to change the shape of a figure or to transform my composition. Until I have achieved this proportio…

What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity, devoid of troubling or disturbing subject matter, an art which could be for every mental worker, …

For me all is in the conception. I must therefore have a clear vision of the whole from the beginning.

The simplification of anything is always sensational.

As has been said...it is impossible to make clear the aims of a work of art by means of words.

'Does it mean this, does it mean that, that's all anybody wants to know. Fuck them, darling. I say what any decent poet would say if you dared ask him to analy…