I think I tend to destroy the better paintings, or those that have been better to a certain extent. I try and take them further, and they lose all their qualities, and they lose everything. I think I would say that I destroy all the better paintings.

Truth can never be reached by just listening to the voice of an authority.

The monuments of wit survive the monuments of power.

He who desires solitude is either an animal or a god.

Great art is always a way of concentrating, reinventing what is called fact, what we know of our existence- a reconcentration… tearing away the veils, the attitudes people acquire of their time and earlier time. Really good artists tear down those veils

States, as great engines, move slowly.

Suspicion amongst thoughts are like bats amongst birds, they never fly by twilight.