"Have you ever heard of anything more stupid than 'abstraction-abstraction'? and they ask me into their deserted house…"

"I have thought a lot about the question of titles. I must confess that I find any for works that take off from an arb…"

"We see ourselves confronted with pure abstraction. Small problems and highly obscure subjects are, if you will, alway…"

"Childhood and magic are married in this poem inscribed in infinity, like traces on walls or cracks in venerable walls…"

"The plate that a peasant eats his soup out of is much more interesting to me than the ridiculously rich plates of ric…"

"Let's transplant the primitive soul to the ultramodern New York, inject his soul with the noise of the subway, of the…"

"Down with the Mediterranean!"

"..wherever you are, you find the sun, a blade of grass, the spirals of the dragonfly. Courage consists of staying at …"

"..something as sensational as [a] heavy weight prize fight.. ..a rain of swings, uppercuts, and straight right and le…"

"And then, as you can see, I give greater and greater importance to the materials I use in my work [c. 1936]. A rich a…"