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

Without ethical consciousness, a painter is only a decorator.

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

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.

I feel most real to myself in the studio.

Painting is a medium in which the mind can actualize itself; it is a medium of thought. Thus painting, like music, tends to become its own content.

The main thing is not to be dead.