I don't really have studios. I wander around - around people's attics, out in fields, in cellars, anyplace I find that invites me.

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

It's all in how you arrange the thing... the careful balance of the design is the motion.

To be interested solely in technique would be a very superficial thing to me. If I have an emotion, before I die, that's deeper than any emotion that I've ever had, then I will paint a more powerful picture that will have nothing to do with just technique, but will go beyond it.

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.

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.

My aim is to escape from the medium with which I work.