As soon as we start putting our thoughts into words and sentences everything gets distorted, language is just no damn good—I use it because I have to, but I don’t put any trust in it. We never understand each other.

In the last analysis, the artist may shout from all the rooftops that he is a genius; he will have to wait for the verdict of posterity.

I wanted to kill art for myself.. ..a new thought for that object.

The only thing that is not art is inattention

I was interested in ideas, not merely visual products. I wanted to put painting once again at the service of the mind.

Humor is the only reason to live.

No, the thing to do is try to make a painting that will be alive in your own lifetime.