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.

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.

For me there is no difference between art and life.

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 wouldn't use the same color in a picture in more than one place

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