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.

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.

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.

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

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

Falsehood always punishes itself.