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.

The simplest things give me ideas.

I make no distinction between poetry and painting.

I want to assassinate painting.

A simple line painted with the brush can lead to freedom and happiness.

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

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.