Art is either a complaint or appeasement.

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.

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.

I have no ideas about what the paintings imply about the world. I don't think that's a painter's business. He just paints paintings without a conscious reason.

I don't know how to organise thoughts. I don't know how to have thoughts.

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.