The art of pictorial creation is so complicated - it is so astronomical in its possibilities of relation and combination that it would take an act of super-human concentration to explain the final realization.

Through a painting we can see the whole world.

Eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.

The plastic artist may or may not be concerned with presenting a superficial appearance of reality, but he is always concerned with the presentation – if not the representation – of the plastic values of reality.

It isn’t necessary to make things large to make them monumental; a head by Giacometti one inch high would be able to vitalize this whole space.

The child is really an artist, and the artist should be like a child, but he should not stay a child. He must become an artist. That means he cannot permit himself to become sentimental or something like that. He must know what he is doing.

The art of pictorial creation is so complicated – it is so astronomical in its possibilities of relation and combination that it would take an act of super-human concentration to explain the final realization.

I can’t understand how anyone is able to paint without optimism. Despite the general pessimistic attitude in the world today, I am nothing but an optimist.

A work of art is a world in itself reflecting senses and emotions of the artist’s world.

I can’t understand how anyone is able to paint without optimism.