I can never accomplish what I want - only what I would have wanted had I thought of it beforehand.

In a successful painting everything is integral - all the parts belong to the whole. If you remove an aspect or element you are removing its wholeness.

Do search, but in order to find other than what is searched for.

When I am halfway there with a painting, it can occasionally be thrilling... But it happens very rarely; usually it's agony... I go to great pains to mask the agony. But the struggle is there. It's the invisible enemy.

My freedom consists in my moving about within the narrow frame that I have assigned myself for each one of my undertakings.

I came to mistrust my desire to explode the picture and supercharge it in some way… what is more important is a feeling of strength in reserve – tension beneath calm.

I can never accomplish what I want - only what I would have wanted had I thought of it beforehand.