I don't own any of my own paintings because a Picasso original costs several thousand dollars and that's a luxury I cannot afford.

The world today doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?

People want to find a 'meaning' in everything and everyone. That's the disease of our age...

Nothing can be done without solitude. I've created my own solitude which nobody suspects

If you give a meaning to certain things in my paintings it may be very true, but it is not my idea to give this meaning. What ideas and conclusions you have got I obtained too, but instinctively, unconsciously. I make the painting for the painting. I paint the objects for what they are.

Good taste is the enemy of creativity.

One cannot be a sorcerer all the time. How could one live?