Some artists leave remarkable things which, a 100 years later, don't work at all. I have left my mark; my work is hung in museums, but maybe one day the Tate Gallery or the other museums will banish me to the cellar... you never know.

If you want to convey fact, this can only ever be done through a form of distortion. You must distort to transform what is called appearance into image.

God's first creature, which was light.

A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open.

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.

I have to hope that my instincts will do the right thing, because I can't erase what I have done. And if I drew something first, then my paintings would be illustrations of drawings.

An artist must learn to be nourished by his passions and by his despairs.