How could Michelangelo have seen his David in a block of marble? Man began to make images only because he discovered them nearly formed around him, already within reach. He saw them in a bone, in the bumps of a cave, in a piece of wood. One form suggested a woman to him, another a buffalo, still another the head of a monster.

What I capture in spite of myself interests me more than my own ideas.

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.

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.

I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents.

What other movement determines the S line? Its aesthetic efficacity has long been noted by artists.

Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.