Art never seems to make me peaceful or pure.

I make pictures and someone comes in and calls it art.

I don't paint to live, I live to paint.

Even abstract shapes must have a likeness

In art, one idea is as good as another. If one takes the idea of trembling, for instance, all of a sudden most art starts to tremble. Michelangelo starts to tremble. El Greco starts to tremble. All the Impressionists start to tremble.

I'd like to get all the colors in the world into one painting

If you pick up some paint with your brush and make somebody's nose with it, this is rather ridiculous when you think of it, theoretically or philosophically. It's really absurd to make an image, like a human image, with paint, today.