My art would be that of living: each moment, each breath is a work inscribed nowhere.

You know exactly what I think of photography. I would like to see it make people despise painting until something else will make photography unbearable. (In a letter to Alfred Stieglitz)

I have drawn people's attention to the fact that art is a mirage. A mirage, just like the oasis that appears in the desert. It is very beautiful, until the moment when you die of thirst, obviously. But we do not die of thirst in the field of art. The mirage has substance.

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

The most interesting thing about artists is how they live

My art would be that of living: each moment, each breath is a work inscribed nowhere.

I think there is a great deal to the idea of not doing a thing, but that when you do a thing, you don't do it in five minutes or in five hours, but in five years.