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 for the artist like ornithology is for the birds.

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

Any art worthy of its name should address 'life', 'man', 'nature', 'death' and 'tragedy'.

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

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

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