Painting is a duality and abstract painting is an entirely aesthetic thing. It always remains on one level. It is only really interesting in the beauty of its patterns or its shapes.

Truth is a good dog; but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out.

We only have our nervous system to paint.

Never any knowledge was delivered in the same order it was invented.

It's always hopeless to talk about painting - one never does anything but talk around it.

If I go to the National Gallery and I look at one of the great paintings that excite me there, it's not so much the painting that excites me as that the painting unlocks all kinds of valves of sensation within me which return me to life more violently.

But men must know, that in this theatre of man's life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on.