Those who attempts to explain a picture are on the wrong track most of the time.

Painting isn't an aesthetic operation; it's a form of magic designed as mediator between this strange hostile world and us.

It took me a lifetime.

I draw like other people bite their nails.

No, painting is not interior decoration. It is an instrument of war for attack and defense against the enemy.

When it comes right down to it, all you have is your self. Your Self is a sun with a thousand rays.

I like all paintings. I always look at the paintings, good or bad, in barbershops, furniture stores, provincial hotels. I'm like a drinker who needs wine. As long as it is wine, it doesn't matter which wine.