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

Destruction is also creation.

I believe that a picture, a work of art, lives and dies just as we do.

Artmaking is making the invisible, visible.

While all artists are not chess players, all chess players are artists.

The individual, man as a man, man as a brain, if you like, interests me more than what he makes, because I've noticed that most artists only repeat themselves.

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)