It's absolutely irrelevant what galleries and critics and people who buy your paintings think. They just don't have any possible idea of what happens to you and they're really not that interested. As a matter of fact, they hate the idea that anything really happens to you. They want you to be a genius and that's it.

As soon as you set yourself up in the position of transferring paint from one place to another, your whole culture invades you. It tells you all about the history of art.

As long as you can change paint, you don't change. For you to change - for paint to do something to you - paint must stay constant.

If there's no unity in your work, then you've deliberately made yourself into that kind of person. You don't want that unity in your work. You've made some kind of satisfactory arrangement with your culture.

The religions never wanted an art where you paint only what you see.

You always have the memory of the bottom, and fear of the bottom. And when you start going to the bottom you panic.

Each of us has a universal within us. There's always that making of parts - but it doesn't touch the universal within you.