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.

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

Content is a glimpse.

Art never seems to make me peaceful or pure.

In art one idea is as good as another.

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.

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