Neither is there figurative and non-figurative art. All things appear to us in the shape of forms. Even in metaphysics ideas are expressed by forms. Well then, think how absurd it would be to think of painting without the imagery of forms. A figure, an object, a circle, are forms; they affect us more or less intensely.

The earth doesn't have a housekeeper to do the dusting. And the dust that falls on it every day remains there. Everything that's come down to us from the past has been conserved by dust.

I simply painted images of what was before my eyes; it is for others to find hidden meaning in them.

The more technique you have, the less you have to worry about it. The more technique there is, the less there is.

When you're really young, you're young for life.

The earth doesn't have a housekeeper to do the dusting.

Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.