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

Chess is a sport. A violent sport.

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

I am interested in ideas, not merely in visual products.

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.

It's the viewer that makes the work.

Art has the lovely habit of ruining all artistic theories.