My idea was to chose an object that wouldn't attract me, either by its beauty or by its ugliness. To find a point of indifference in my looking at it, you see

The most interesting thing about artists is how they live

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

The Chess pieces are the block alphabet which shapes thoughts; and these thoughts, although making a visual design on the chessboard, express their beauty abstractly, like a poem

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

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 have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste.