I think a painting is more like the real world if it's made out the real world.

Basically painting is total idiocy.

One has to believe in what one is doing, one has to commit oneself inwardly, in order to do painting. Once obsessed, one ultimately carries it to the point of believing that one might change human beings through painting. But if one lacks this passionate commitment, there is nothing left to do. Then it is best to leave it alone.

Painting relates to both art and life. Neither can be made - I try to act in the gap.

You have to have the time to feel sorry for yourself in order to be a good abstract expressionist.

You begin with the possibilities of the material.

For me there is no difference between art and life.