All that is happening in art is part of a process of exploration and discovery. I hope to live for a few more years so that I can catch glimpses of t….

There is my love... of the young artists of my country who can carry on the dreams and ideals into the future..

All paintings start with concept, which is another word for image or imagination. The mistake is to isolate the concept as if the idea did not need t….

The art that I make and that I see others make confirms the miracle of being alive. Almost every day I live in a state of exaltation. The art of pain….

Impressionism came about because it suddenly became apparent that pure colours mix in the eye in a more dazzling way than they have ever been mixed i….

I had always made pictures as I thought I saw the world, focusing on what lay in front, but this is not how one sees the world. It only frames the ce….

I don't want to always be doing the same old thing..

The art of painting is entering a new golden age. It is in no danger of becoming obsolete..

No artist, if he has original talent, can paint like another..

My zest for exhibition has over a long career become increasingly a mania. The ecstasy I feel as I survey work I have done I want to share with the w….

Cubism came about because, in the process of analyzing form, something that lay in the form, a plane, could be lifted out to float on its own..

Sometimes, at a certain point, the painting seems to have painted itself without my help - what I have called the 'eureka' moment when a sudden darin….

An aged painter cannot help but accept the fact that his work belongs in the past. Younger painters have leaped into the phenomenon called contempora….

Art is a celebration of life, intended by the artist to put the spectator in touch with the divine..

Each painting is a plunge into the unknown..