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

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.

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.

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

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.

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