To paint is a possessing rather than a picturing.

I do not see why the loss of faith in the known image and symbol in our time should be celebrated as a freedom. It is a loss from which we suffer, and this pathos motivates modern painting and poetry at its heart.

There is something mysterious in this work that I do not ever what to discover.

More than a process, painting is being possessed.

Frustration is one of the great things in art. Satisfaction is nothing.

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

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.