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.

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

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

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.

Even an abstract form has to have a likeness.

I don't paint to live, I live to paint.

The drawings that interest me most are made with closed eyes. With eyes closed, I feel my hand slide down on the paper. I have an image in mind, but the results always surprise me.