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 have to change to stay the same.

Im not someone whos ever said anything definitive about his work. In my life also I have very little fixed form. I can change overnight.

Flesh was the reason why oil painting was invented

The past does not influence me; I influence it.

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

Content is a glimpse of something, an encounter like a flash. It's very tiny - very tiny. Content.