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.

Inspiration exists, but you have to find it working.

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.

When I enter the studio, I leave my body at the door the way the Moslems leave their shoes when they enter the mosque, and I only allow my spirit to go in there and paint.

...the right to free expression is something one seizes, not something one is given.... if it does exist, it exists to be used against the established order.... There is absolute opposition between the artist and the state.

Computers are stupid.

To arrive at abstraction, it is always necessary to begin with a concrete reality.