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.

If all the ways I have been along were marked on a map and joined up with a line, it might represent a minotaur.

There are more copies than originals among people.

I draw like other people bite their nails.

[In developing your potential] ... I don't develop; I am

When you begin a picture you often make some pretty discoveries. You must be on guard against these. Destroy the thing, do it over several times. In each destroying of a beautiful discovery, the artist does not really suppress it, but rather condenses it, makes it more substantial. What comes out in the end is the result of discarded finds. Otherwise you become your own connoisseur.

Why do two colors, put one next to the other, sing?