Aesthetics is to artists as ornithology is to birds.

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.

Man's first expression, like his first dream, was an aesthetic one. Speech was a poetic outcry rather than a demand for communication. Original man, shouting his consonants, did so in yells of awe and anger at his tragic state, at his own self-awareness and at his own helplessness before the void.

I prefer to leave the paintings to speak for themselves.

The problem of a painting is physical and metaphysical, the same as I think life is physical and metaphysical.

Aesthetics is to artists as ornithology is to birds.

We are in the process of making the world, to a certain extent, in our own image.