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.

In art one idea is as good as another.

An artist is forced by others to paint out of his own free will.

Flesh was the reason why oil painting was invented

The past does not influence me; I influence it.

Whatever an artist's personal feelings are, as soon as an artist fills a certain area on the canvas or circumscribes it, he becomes historical. He acts from or upon other artists.