Theory has nothing to do with a work of art. Pictures which are interpretable, and which contain a meaning, are bad pictures. A picture presents itse….

Since there is no such thing as absolute rightness and truth, we always pursue the artificial, leading, human truth. We judge and make a truth that e….

To believe, one must have lost God. To paint, one must have lost art..

I've never found anything to be lacking in a blurry canvas. Quite the contrary: you can see many more things in it than in a sharply focused image. A….

If the abstract paintings show my reality, then the landscapes and still-lifes show my yearning..

Nature/Structure. There is no more to say. In my pictures I reduce to that. But 'reduce' is the wrong word, because these are not simplifications. I ….

Art is not a substitute religion: it is a religion (in the true sense of the word: 'binding back', 'binding' to the unknowable, transcending reason, ….

I'm trying to paint a picture of what I have seen and what moved me, as well as I can. That's all..

Painting is consequently an almost blind, desperate effort, like that of a person abandoned, helpless, in totally incomprehensible surroundings..

I believe that art has a kind of rightness, as in music, when we hear whether or not a note is false.

Art is the highest form of hope..

To talk about paintings is not only difficult but perhaps pointless too. You can only express in words what words are capable of expressing-- what la….

Painting is another form of thinking..

I pursue no objectives, no systems, no tendency; I have no program, no style, no direction. I have no time for specialized concerns, working themes, ….

My landscapes are not only beautiful, or nostalgic, with a Romantic or classical suggestion of lost Paradises, but above all 'untruthful.' By 'untrut….

It is a danger to wait around for an idea to occur to you. You have to find the idea..

Abstract pictures are fictive models, because they make visible a reality that we can neither see nor describe, but whose existence we can postulate..

My paintings are wiser than I am..

I pursue no intentions, no directions; I have no program, no style and no mission..

I don't believe in the reality of painting, so I use different styles like clothes: it's a way to disguise myself..

I would like to try to understand what is. We know very little, and I am trying to do it by creating analogies. Almost every work of art is an analog….