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

What you do when you paint, you take a brush full of paint, get paint on the picture, and you have faith.

Flesh was the reason why oil painting was invented

I read somewhere that Rubens said students should not draw from life, but draw from all the great classic casts. Then you really get the measure of them, you really know what to do. And then, put in your own dimples. Isn't that marvelous!

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.

Yes, I am influenced by everbody. But every time I put my hands in my pockets I find someone else's fingers there.

You have to keep on the very edge of something, all the time, or the picture dies.