Garden work consists much more in uprooting weeds than in planting seed. This applies also to teaching.

I destroy things every day in the act of working and often recall a picture I had considered finished in order to rework it.

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

I go out each morning and draw. I can't really start a painting in the morning until I've done a drawing.

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.

Garden work consists much more in uprooting weeds than in planting seed. This applies also to teaching.

To put down an ideogram of a table so that people will recognize it as a table is not the work of a painter, but to sense it for a moment as a magic carpet with a leg hanging down at each corner is the beginning of a painter's imagination.