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

Painting that does not radiate feeling is not worth looking at. The deepest-and rarest-of grown-up pleasures is true feeling.

I feel most real to myself in the studio.

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.

Art is an experience, not an object.

The main thing is not to be dead.

In the brush doing what it is doing, it will stumble on what one could not do by oneself.