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

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

Possible reality [is obtained] by slightly bending physical and chemical laws.

All this twaddle, the existence of God, atheism, determinism, liberation, societies, death, etc., are pieces of a chess game called language, and they are amusing only if one does not preoccupy oneself with 'winning or losing this game of chess.

An abstract painting need in 50 years by no means look "abstract" any longer.

This concern which interests us more than anything else: the blurring of the distinction between art and life.

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.