To paint is a possessing rather than a picturing.

Probably the most potent desire for a painter, an image-maker, is to see it. To see what the mind can think and imagine, to realize it for oneself, through oneself, as concretely as possible.

I go to the studio everyday because one day I may go and the Angel will be there. What if I don't go and the Angel comes?

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

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.

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.

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