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.

Aesthetics is to artists as ornithology is to birds.

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

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

I prefer to leave the paintings to speak for themselves.

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

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