One must always draw, draw with the eyes, when one cannot draw with a pencil.

The craft of painting has virtually disappeared. There is hardly anyone left who really possesses it. For evidence one has only to look at the painters of this century.

Painting is a language which cannot be replaced by another language. I don't know what to say about what I paint, really.

I will always find even the worst paintings that attempt some kind of representation better than the best invented paintings.

If you speak of beauty, you are at once suspected of...kitsch.

I had only planned to strike the gong violently in order to somehow shake people up and make them more aware. I think I succeeded.

One must always draw, draw with the eyes, when one cannot draw with a pencil.