Manifesting takes place from Spirit. It doesn't take place from form, from the physical world. You've got to know that what you want to manifest will occur.

I paint the way someone bites his fingernails; for me, painting is a bad habit because I don't know nor can I do anything else.

They ought to put out the eyes of painters as they do goldfinches in order that they can sing better.

Art is not chaste. Those ill prepared should be allowed no contact with art. Art is dangerous. If it is chaste, it is not art.

I am exhausted if I don't work.

Photography has arrived at the point where it is capable of liberating painting from all literature, from the anecdote, and even from the subject. In any case, a certain aspect of the subject now belongs to the domain of photography. So shouldn't painters profit from their newly acquired liberty, and make use of it to do other things?

I've reached the moment where the movement of my thought interests me more than the thought itself.