To be an artist you have to give up everything, including the desire to be a good artist.

Sometimes I see it and then paint it. Other times I paint it and then see it. Both are impure situations, and I prefer neither. At every point in nature there is something to see. My work contains similar possibilities for the changing focus of the eye.

I'm not looking for images, They just appear and take on an interest. Sometimes you look at a thing and it has no interest and then you see it in a different way and it has another meaning. Or something that was of no use will become useful.

I think a painting should include more experience than simply intended statement.

When something is new to us, we treat it as an experience. We feel that our senses are awake and clear. We are alive.

I often find that having an idea in my head prevents me from doing something else. Working is therefore a way of getting rid of an idea.

One wants one's work to be the world, but of course it's never the world. The work is in the world; it never contains the whole thing.