That which takes us by surprise-moments of happiness-that is inspiration.

When you look in your mind you find it covered with a lot of rubbishy thoughts. You have to penetrate these and hear what your mind is telling you to do. Such work is original work.

My paintings are certainly nonobjective. They're just horizontal lines. There's not any hint of nature. And still everybody responds, I think.

Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye, it is in the mind.

I'm very careful not to have ideas, because they're inaccurate.

When I first made a grid I happened to be thinking of the innocence of trees and then this grid came into my mind and I thought it represented innocence, and I still do, and so I painted it and then I was satisfied. I thought, this is my vision.

The enormous pitfall is devotion to oneself instead of to life. All works that are self-devoted are absolutely ineffective.