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

I don't like masterpieces having one-night stands in collectors' homes between auctions.

The only thing that I could get with chance, and I never was able to use it, was that I would end up with something quite geometric or the spirit that I was interested in, indulging in, was gone.

I always have a good reason for taking something out but I never have one for putting something in. And I don't want to, because that means that the picture is being painted predigested.

I'm not so facile that I can accomplish or find out what I want to know or explore enough of the possibilities and a way of making a painting, say, in just one painting or two paintings.

An empty canvas is full.

For me there is no difference between art and life.