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

The Minimalists are idealist. They want to minimise themselves in favour of the ideal. But I just can't. You see, my paintings are not cool. ... I'm very careful not to have ideas, because they're inaccurate.

Fulfill your potential. That's the way to happiness.

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

I paint with my back to the world

It's through discipline and tremendous disappointment and failure that you arrive at what it is you must paint.

When I think of art I think of beauty. Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye it is in the mind. In our minds there is awareness of perfection.