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.

Understanding is a form of blindness. Good art, I think, can never be understood.

I've not been cursed with talent, which could be a great inhibitor.

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

The artist's job is to be a witness to his time in history.

People ask me, 'Don't you ever run out of ideas?' In the first place I don't use ideas. Every time I have an idea it's too limiting, and usually turns out to be a disappointment. But I haven't run out of curiosity.

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.