When art critics get together they talk about Form and Structure and Meaning. When artists get together they talk about where you can buy cheap turpentine.

I never calculate. That is why those who do, calculate so much less accurately than I.

I simply painted images of what was before my eyes; it is for others to find hidden meaning in them.

You cannot go against nature. She is stronger than the strongest of men. We can permit ourselves some liberties, but in details only.

Inspiration exists, but it has to find us working.

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

When I am finished painting, I paint again for relaxation.