Painting isn't just pretty or pleasant; it is something that helps you to stand alone and face yourself.

Prehistoric art came to move me much more than Greek art. Greek art has beautiful women and handsome men, but I don't care.

I never want to stop painting. I'm 94 now. What's my secret? I just keep thinking about the painting I'm going to do tomorrow.

I am against limitations like perspective. Perspective is illusion, it's the opposite of presence, and art is presence.

I always loved to paint. As a kid, I liked to dip my paintbrush in black ink. They gave colors to me to use, but I didn't like them very much.

A window looks outside, but a painting should do the opposite - it should look inside of us. When I put them in the middle of the room, I attach the paintings at the top to the ceiling and on the bottom to the floor. I prefer this to just hanging them from the ceiling because it creates a place in a space, like a wall.

Black ink was always my favorite. I loved it. And then one day I realized that the only thing I ever wanted to do was to paint.