In my experience a painting is not made with colors and paint at all. I don't know what a painting is; who knows what sets off even the desire to paint?

In my experience a painting is not made with colors and paint at all. I don't know what a painting is; who knows what sets off even the desire to paint?

I should like to paint like an man who has never seen a painting, but this man -myself - lives in a museum.

Painting is an illusion, a piece of magic, so what you see is not what you see.

I am a night painter, so when I come into the studio the next morning the delirium is over.

Painting and sculpture are very archaic forms. It's the only thing left in our industrial society where an individual alone can make something with not just his own hands, but brains, imagination, heart maybe.

It is possible to make a living thing, not a diagram of what I have been thinking: to posit with paint something living, something that changes each day.