I don't see art as entertainment.

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.

As a human being, I am a citizen, but as an artist, I am asocial.

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

I don't like things that can be reproduced. Wood isn't important in itself but rather in the fact that objects made in it are unique, simple, unpretentious.

No one who looks at my paintings can see whether a painting is upside down or not anymore. I've made or developed so many image models that some people have given up trying to keep track of me. But others have only one or two ways of doing things and are successful with that.

A painter doesn't need any talent. In fact, it's better not to have it.