Wherever art appears, life disappears.

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

Without ethical consciousness, a painter is only a decorator.

The main thing is not to be dead.

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

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

Nothing as drastic an innovation as abstract art could have come in to existence, save as the consequence of a most profound, relentless, unquenchable need. The need is for felt experience - intense, immediate, direct, subtle, unified, warm, vivid, rhythmic.