Look at any inspired painting. It's like a gong sounding; it puts you in a state of reverberation.

Look at any inspired painting. It's like a gong sounding; it puts you in a state of reverberation.

To paint is a possessing rather than a picturing.

Painting is an illusion, a piece of magic, so what you see is not what you see. I don't know what a painting is; who knows what sets off even the desire to paint? It might be things, thoughts, a memory, sensations, which have nothing to do directly with painting itself. They can come from anything and anywhere.

More than a process, painting is being possessed.

Painting seems like some kind of peculiar miracle that I need to have again and again.

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