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

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

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

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.

Falsehood always punishes itself.

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