I listed to Tchaikovsky. He is both kitsch and profound. I love that lack of "Good taste."

It's instinctive in a certain kind of painting...It's like a nervous system. It's not described, it's happening. The feeling is going on with the task. The line is the feeling, from a soft thing, a dreamy thing, to something hard, something arid, something lonely, something ending, something beginning.

I sit for two or three hours and then in 15 minutes I can do a painting, but that's part of it. You have to get ready and decide to jump up and do it; you build yourself up psychologically, and so painting has no time for brush. Brush is boring, you give it and all of a sudden it's dry, you have to go. Before you cut the thought, you know?

And we who have always thought of happiness climbing, would feel the emotion that almost startles when happiness falls.

I love my sculptures, and I was lucky I had them for 50 years because no one would look at them and I really liked having them around.

When I work, I work very fast, but preparing to work can take any length of time.

I would’ve liked to have been Poussin, if I’d had a choice, in another time.