They'll sell you thousands of greens. Veronese green and emerald green and cadmium green and any sort of green you like; but that particular green, never.

One never knows what one is going to do. One starts a painting and then it becomes something quite different.

What is conserved in the ground? Stone, bronze, ivory, bone, sometimes pottery. Never wood objects, no fabric or skins. That completely skews our notions about primitive man.

I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.

To draw you must close your eyes and sing.

If all the ways I have been along were marked on a map and joined up with a line, it might represent a minotaur.

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