Who said “Everything vanishes around me, and works are born as if out of the void. Ripe, graphic…”?

“True creativity often starts where language ends.”

“Man was made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.”

“Whatever creativity is, it is in part a solution to a problem.”

“No one has ever written, painted, sculpted, modeled, built, or invented except literally to get out of hell.”

“I must create a system or be enslaved by another man s; I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.”

“Nature is garrulous to the point of confusion, let the artist be truly taciturn.”

“When looking at any significant work of art, remember that a more significant one probably has had to be sacrificed.”

“To emphasize only the beautiful seems to me to be like a mathematical system that only concerns itself with positive numbers.”

“The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions.”

“In the final analysis, a drawing simply is no longer a drawing, no matter how self-sufficient its execution may be. It is a symbol, and the more profoundly the imaginary lines of projection meet higher dimensions, the better.”

“One eye sees, the other feels.”