The artist performs only one part of the creative process. The onlooker completes it, and it is the onlooker who has the last word.

I've decided that art is a habit-forming drug. That's all it is, for the artist, for the collector, for anybody connected with it.

I don't believe in art. I believe in artists.

Art has the lovely habit of ruining all artistic theories.

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

Unless a picture shocks, it is nothing.

I like living, breathing better than working...my art is that of living. Each second, each breath is a work which is inscribed nowhere, which is neither visual nor cerebral, it's a sort of constant euphoria.