I think the Enlightenment is leading us into a dark hole, really.

Every good artist I know, I always think works hard, we're working all the time.

When you stop doing something, it doesn't mean you are rejecting the previous work. That's the mistake; it's not rejecting it, it's saying, 'I have exploited it enough now and I wish to take a look at another corner.'

I had always planned to make a large painting of the early spring, when the first leaves are at the bottom of the trees, and they seem to float in space in a wonderful way. But the arrival of spring can't be done in one picture.

All painting, no matter what you are painting, is abstract in that it's got to be organized.

I'm not going to stop painting just to take orders.

There are enough no smoking places now.