I prefer to see with closed eyes.
The aim of our studies is to prove that color is the most relative means of artistic expression, that we never really perceive what color is physically.
Any ground subtracts its own hue from the colors which it carries and therefore influences.
When we are honest - that's my saying - if we are honest then we will reveal ourselves. But we do not have to make an effort to be individualistic, different from others.
Abstraction is real, probably more real than nature.
Ah, the creative process is the same secret in science as it is in art. They are all the same absolutely.
When I came from horizontal vertical straight all old stuff then suddenly I go also again in curved lines. And there I submit to changes in the intensity of my hand leading a tool, you see.
I went to the Academy and studied with Stuck who was then a big man. But didn't interest me. I didn't know that before me there was Kandinsky and Klee who had also studied with Stuck. He had a good name at that time.