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.

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

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.

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

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.

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?

If the artist starts evaluating himself, it’s an enormous block, isn’t it?