An Object Never Serves The Same Function

Art Evokes The Mystery Without Which The World Would Not Exist.

The Famous Pipe. How People Reproached Me For It! And Yet, Could You Stuff My Pipe? No, It's Just A Representation, Is It Not? So If I Had Written On My Picture “this Is A Pipe”, I'd Have Been Lying!

My Painting Is Visible Images Which Conceal Nothing... They Evoke Mystery And Indeed When One Sees One Of My Pictures, One Asks Oneself This Simple Question 'what Does That Mean'? It Does Not Mean Anything, Because Mystery Means Nothing Either, It Is Unknowable.

Visible Things Can Be Invisible. However, Our Powers Of Thought Grasp Both The Visible And The Invisible – And I Make Use Of Painting To Render Thoughts Visible.

The Feeling We Experience While We Look At A Picture Is Not To Be Distinguished From The Picture Or From Ourselves. The Feeling, Picture, And Ourselves Are United In One Mystery.