One of the most striking aspects of abstract art's appearance is her nakedness, an art stripped bare.
I feel most real to myself in the studio.
Without ethical consciousness, a painter is only a decorator.
The public's appetite for famous people is a mouth as big as a mountain.
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.
For twenty years I read a book a day, from the time I was seven until I was twenty-seven.