"Hugo, [Claus] Now you should see my recent works. A drawing in ink, three pencil drawings and two sketches in oil-pai…"

"Every day I make more progress in technique: understanding of color, the material and the line. [I] can even give bet…"

"[I have] all respect for that neoclassicism [of Piet Mondrian ], but it would sacrifices me too much to architecture.…"

"- As far as my exhibition concerned [opening was 8 May 1954, in Ghent].. ..there is however a recent and important pa…"

"The city offers certainly advantages, I agree. But I think that they do not outweigh the direct, unadulterated inspir…"

"The terrible beautiful Life."

"That I started [in the creation of his art] from my immediate environment was extremely important to me. Only the thi…"

"I don't want to be a preacher who tries to improve the world according to his own opinion. For that I put too much in…"

"The cosmic also keeps me busy, more than the other 'Nieuwe Vizie' ['New Vison'-artists]. For me it means the feeling …"

"Raveel's goal is that because of an intruding neutral plane in the painting the attentive spectator will project hims…"