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

The worst thing you can think about when you're working is yourself.

Any material may be used but the theme is the same and the response is the same for all artwork... we all have the same concern, but the artist must know exactly what the experience is. He must pursue the truth relentlessly

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

I paint with my back to the world

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

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