It is a danger to wait around for an idea to occur to you. You have to find the idea.

If the abstract paintings show my reality, then the landscapes and still-lifes show my yearning.

Of course, pictures of objects also have this transcendental side to them. Every object, being part of an ultimately incomprehensible world, also embodies that world; when represented in a picture, the object conveys this mystery all the more powerfully, the less of a 'function' the picture has. Hence, for instance, the growing fascination of many beautiful old portraits.

Well, I don't believe there are subjects that can't be painted, but there are a lot of things that I personally can't paint.

This superficial blurring has something to do with the incapacity I have just mentioned. I can make no statement about reality clearer than my own relationship to reality; and this has a great deal to do with imprecision, uncertainty, transience, incompleteness, or whatever. But this doesn't explain the pictures. At best it explains what led to their being painted.

I don't create blurs. Blurring is not the most important thing; nor is it an identity tag for my pictures.

My paintings are wiser than I am.