The public's appetite for famous people is a mouth as big as a mountain.

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

The abstractness of modern art has to do with how much an enlightened mind rejects of the contemporary social order.

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.

I feel most real to myself in the studio.

For me, the sketchbooks are more like a secret and wholly spontaneous jeu d'esprit and some of them I like as much as anything I have ever done. They are invariably without premeditation. I mean not only that I have no plan when I make them, I also have no plan to make them.

Without ethical consciousness, a painter is only a decorator.