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.

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

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

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.

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

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.