You can look at a picture for a week and never think of it again. You can also look at the picture for a second and think of it all your life.

Painting or poetry is made as one makes love - a total embrace, prudence thrown to the winds, nothing held back.

For me, a painting must give off sparks. It must dazzle like the beauty of a woman or a poem.

My characters have undergone the same process of simplification as the colors. Now that they have been simplified, they appear more human and alive than if they had been represented in all their details.

I begin painting and as I paint the picture begins to assert itself, or suggest itself, under my brush. The form becomes a sign for a woman or a bird as I work... The first stage is free, unconscious... the second stage is carefully calculated.

Painting must be fertile. It must give birth to a world.. ..it must fertilize the imagination.

I want to assassinate painting.