"The artist carries art within himself, or so they always say. But is it really art that he carries within him? Isn't it rather the deep understanding of nature, or nature itself, that he possesses, and can't he therefore be creatively active on his own level, parallel to it? He has nature within him and must condense the artwork from a chaotic yet meaningful cosmos of elements. Technically: from the finest nuances of color to concentrations, from hints of form to forms." - Herrfurth in a note from 1957