I assumed that everything would lead to complete failure, but I decided that didn't matter – that would be my life.

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

I think that one wants from a painting a sense of life. The final suggestion, the final statement, has to be not a deliberate statement but a helpless statement. It has to be what you can't avoid saying.

I never wish for critics.

Intention involves such a small fragment of our consciousness and of our mind and of our life.

Everybody is of course free to interpret the work in his own way. I think seeing a picture is one thing and interpreting it is another.

The thing is, if you believe in the unconscious - and I do - there's room for all kinds of possibilities that I don't know how you prove one way or another.