Occupation: Painter Birth: December 13, 1923 Death: February 6, 2012
When I talk of reality, I am always thinking of essentials. Profundity is not located in some remote, inaccessible region. It is rooted in everyday l….
An image means nothing. It is just a door, leading to the next door. It will never happens that we will find the truth we are looking for just in an ….
At lucky moments this emanation could overwhelm the spectator in such a way, that because of all sorts of associations in his thinking, he could fina….
My activities have never had anything to do with the idea of becoming famous or achieving success. I have always been concerned with getting people t….
It is what makes conscious of the conditions and laws of observing which applied in this manner become a theme on its own. The activity of consciousn….
I am interested in study, reflection, philosophy - but always as a dilettante. I also consider myself a dilettante as a painter..
All my pictures are a kind of revision of my original idea. This is surely very different from the way in which Japanese or Chinese artists work: the….
A cross could be a shape for expressing something spacious; such as the coordinators of space. That could be called its first significance or its fir….
In the potential of absurdity, hiding in the disparate combination of the various different subjects which in themselves are nothing but daily items ….
My illusion is to have something to transmit. If I can't change the world, at least I want to change the way people look at it..
The dramatic sufferings of adults and all the cruel fantasies of those of my own age, who seemed abandoned to their own impulses in the midst of so m….
Like a researcher in his laboratory, I am the first spectator of the suggestions drawn from the materials. I unleash their expressive possibilities, ….
The artist may rightly venture the opinion that he does not convey ideas, does not preach, nor that he intents to convert people by using mass commun….
The material presence of the work only serves as a conveyer launching an invitation to the observer to take part of the comprehensive game of the tho….
Obviously, the intention was not to go back to images traditionally valued as worthy or holy images and shapes, but exactly the opposite; its main pu….
Starting with approaching the spot where the painting is to be done, meanwhile realising the emptiness of the mind, up to the method of 'the flying w….
If one draws things in a manner which provides only the barest clue to their meaning, the viewer is forced to fill in the gaps by using his own imagi….
Painting quickly is a calculated act to block out rational thought..
Which country is real, mine or the teacher's? My wish is that we might progressively lose our confidence in what we think we believe and the things w….
The highest wisdom adopts the humblest of bodies..
The tattoo can only exist as part of the skin, as a drawing always is an incision in the material and therefore cannot be parted from it..