"The editor of this catalog asked me to make a statement about my work. I don't have much to write: - Be a child of yo…"

"The trenches wound in meandering lines and white faces peered from dark dugouts – a lot of men were still preparing t…"

"Yesterday we came across a cemetery that had been completely destroyed by shellfire. The graves had been blown up, an…"

"..[war] in itself is one of the manifestations of life, like disease, love, and lust. And just as I follow fear, dise…"

"My heart beats more for a rougher, more ordinary, more vulgar art that does not live in a poetic, fairy-tale dream bu…"

"The laws of art are eternal and don't change at all, as the moral laws don't change in human beings. [arguing with Fr…"

"I have never, God or whatever knows, prostrated myself to be famous, but I would meander through all the sewers of th…"

"[it is] amusing all the same, how the peacetime life we cursed and groaned about now elevates itself with iron logic …"

"I have such a passion for painting! I am continually working at form. In actual drawing and in my head, and during my…"

"To me the most important thing [in a picture] is roundness captured in height and breadth. Roundness in the plane, de…"