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

To end up with a canvas that is no less beautiful than the empty canvas is to begin with.

Collage is the twentieth century's greatest innovation

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.

Without ethical consciousness, a painter is only a decorator.

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