It may be that the deep necessity of art is the examination of individual's and society's self-deception.

One of the most striking aspects of abstract art's appearance is her nakedness, an art stripped bare.

It may be that the deep necessity of art is the examination of individual's and society's self-deception.

In the brush doing what it is doing, it will stumble on what one could not do by oneself.

Every intelligent painter carries the whole culture of modern painting in his head. It is his real subject, of which everything he paints in both an homage and a critique, and everything he says is a gloss.

Most painting in the European tradition was painting the mask. Modern art rejected all that. Our subject matter was the person behind the mask.

For twenty years I read a book a day, from the time I was seven until I was twenty-seven.