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

It's not that the creative act and the critical act are simultaneous. It's more like you blurt something out and then analyze it.

A main part of the struggle of art has been to make an art that is direct, simple, humane, unconnected with powers that be in their essence... To the degree that it is connected with the bourgeoisie via the marketplace and so on is not necessarily an artist's problem.

If you can't find your inspiration by walking around the block one time, go around two times-but never three.

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

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

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.