If somehow I can, before I leave this earth, combine my absolutely mad freedom and excitement with truth, then I will have done something.

Artists today think of everything they do as a work of art. It is important to forget about what you are doing - then a work of art may happen.

I've tried never to be easily satisfied, and I've been painting like fury now for forty years.... I have a feeling. You paint about as far as your emotions go, and that's about it.

I think one's art goes as far and as deep as one's love goes. I see no reason for painting but that. If I have anything to offer, it is my emotional contact with the place where I live and the people I do.

If you clean it up, get analytical, all the subtle joy and emotion you felt in the first place goes flying out the window.

I don't think that there is anything that is really magical unless it has a terrifying quality.

I can't work completely out of my imagination-I must put my foot in a bit of truth-and then I can fly free.