What is the explanation of the seemingly insane drive of man to be painter and poet if it is not an act of defiance against mans fall and an assertion that he return to the Garden of Eden? For the artists are the first men.

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.

From the very beginning I felt that I would do a series.

Aesthetics is for the artist like ornithology is for the birds.

Sculpture is what you bump into when you back up to see a painting.

The impulse of modern art was this desire to destroy beauty.

It is our function as artists to make the spectator see the world our way not his way.