Ideally, one should have more material than one can possibly cope with.

It seems to me madness to wake up in the morning and do something other than paint, considering that one may not wake up the following morning.

Real style is not having a program - it's how one behaves in a crisis.

The unity in any painter's work arises from the fact that a person, brought to a desperate situation, will behave in a certain way... style.

I think that the very earliest influence was a horror of having to work in a bank or an office, a desire for a free and creative life.

I'm hoping to make a new thing for the world that remains in the mind like a new species of living thing.

In addition to the artistic influences, I am influenced by my current private life, my feelings about it and my energy level and state of health.