“I am trying to be unfamiliar with what I'm doing.”

“I have nothing to sayand I am saying itand that is poetryas I need it.”

“It is not futile to do what we do. We wake up with energy and we do something. And we make, of course, failures and we make mistakes, but we sometimes get glimpses of what we might do next.”

“I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.”

“Why do you not do as I do? Letting go of your thoughts as though they were the cold ashes of a long dead fire?”

“Art is sort of an experimental station in which one tries out living”

“The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason.”