An object painted upside down is suitable for painting because it is unsuitable as an object.

What counts most is finding new ways to get the world down in paint on my own terms.

As an artist, I have been a risk-taker. And I've done a lot of different things. I don't make it easy for people. Identification is difficult. One doesn't recognize my art right away.

Despite all the taxes people pay, there supposedly isn't any money in this country for art. Of course, this makes an artist ask himself: "Well, then, what are you doing with the 100 million I pay each year? What happened to that money?" And he doesn't get an answer.

You dig in and you find something.

I don't know who made up this sort of greatest-hits list for artists. If one artist isn't moving forward anymore, then it's assumed another one is going to take their place. With Francis Bacon's death, a whole genre of art died.

The artist is not responsible to any one. His social role is asocial... his only responsibility consists in an attitude to the work he does.