The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.

For me painting is a dramatic action in the course of which reality finds itself split apart

Whatever the source of emotion that drives me to create, I want to give it a form which has some connection with the visible world, even if it is only to wage war on that world....I want my paintings to be able to defend themselves to resist the invader, just as though there were razor blades on all surfaces so no one could touch them without cutting his hands.

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.

That inspiration comes, does not depend on me. The only thing I can do is make sure it catches me working.

Why do you try to understand art? Do you try to understand the song of a bird?

God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant and the cat. He has no real style, He just goes on trying other things.