The impulse of modern art was this desire to destroy beauty.
Aesthetics is to artists as ornithology is to birds.
Aesthetics is for the artist like ornithology is for the 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.
I prefer to leave the paintings to speak for themselves.
We are in the process of making the world, to a certain extent, in our own image.