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.

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.

Every intelligent painter carries the whole culture of modern painting in his head. It is his real subject, of which everything he paints in both an homage and a critique, and everything he says is a gloss.

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

Without ethical consciousness, a painter is only a decorator.

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.