I don't really trust ideas - especially good ones... Rather, I put my trust in the materials that confront me, because they put me in touch with the unknown.

It is neither Art for Art, nor Art against Art. I am for Art, but for Art that has nothing to do with Art. Art has everything to do with life, but it has nothing to do with Art.

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

I don't want a picture to look like something it isn't. I want it to look like something it is.

You can't make either life or art, you have to work in the hole in between, which is undefined. That's what makes the adventure of painting.

Every time I've moved, my work has changed radically.

I really feel sorry for people who think things like soap dishes or mirrors or Coke bottles are ugly, because they're surrounded by things like that all day long, and it must make them miserable.