The problem of a painting is physical and metaphysical, the same as I think life is physical and metaphysical.
I hope that my painting has the impact of giving someone, as it did me, the feeling of his own totality, of his own separateness, of his own individuality.
We are in the process of making the world, to a certain extent, in our own image.
Aesthetics is for the artist like ornithology is for the birds.
The impulse of modern art was this desire to destroy beauty.
Sculpture is what you bump into when you back up to see a painting.