"It was so flat, you know, you could see the curves of the earth. And when a train came into vision at nine o'clock in…"

"I am grateful for the [financial] assistance I received last year [1955] through the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation. It …"

"When I cover the square surface with rectangles, it lightens the weight of the square. Destroys its power."

"My [artworks] have neither object nor space nor line nor anything – no forms. They are light, lightness, about mergin…"

"I am staying unsettled and trying not to talk for three years. I want to do it very much."

"The adventurous state of / mind is a high house // To enjoy life the adventurous / state of mind must be / grasped an…"

"Nature is like parting a curtain, you go into it. I want to draw a certain response like this.. ..that quality of res…"

"My interest is in experience that is wordless and silent, and in the fact that this experience can be expressed for m…"

"..the function of art work is.. ..the renewal of memories of moments of perfection."

"I used to pay attention to the clouds in the sky.. .I paid close attention for a month to see if they ever repeated. …"