Painting isn't an aesthetic operation; it's a form of magic designed as mediator between this strange hostile world and us.

If you're stuck in a painting, then stop and draw something else. Draw a flower and put your love into that flower. Then your powers will come back again.

The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web.

I never calculate. That is why those who do, calculate so much less accurately than I.

Art is a finger up the bourgeoisie ass.

If I paint a wild horse, you might not see the horse... but surely you will see the wildness!

Everybody has the same energy potential. The average person wastes his in a dozen little ways. I bring mine to bear on one thing only: my paintings, and everything else is sacrificed to it...myself included.