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.

I think one's art goes as far and as deep as one's love goes.

Believe in yourself and believe in love. Love something.

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 have a good friend, Rudolf Serkin, the pianist, a very sensitive man. I was talking to him one day backstage after a concert and I told him that I thought he had played particularly sensitively that day. I said, "You know, many pianists are brilliant, they strike the keys so well, but somehow you are different." "Ah," he said, "I don't think you should ever strike a key. You should pull the keys with your fingers."

I dream a lot. I do more painting when I'm not painting. It's in the subconscious.

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