Being right can stop all the momentum of a very interesting idea.

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

Very quickly a painting is turned into a facsimile of itself when one becomes so familiar with with it that one recognizes it without looking at it.

The working process is ideally freeing my mind.

An empty canvas is full only if you want it to be full.

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

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.