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.

Style is a fraud. I always felt the Greeks were hiding behind their columns.

Not even for a million dollars would I paint a tree.

I think I'm painting a picture of two women but it may turn out to be a landscape.

I have to change to stay the same.

The attitude that nature is chaotic and that the artist puts order into it is a very absurd point of view, I think. All that we can hope for is to put some order into ourselves.

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