The canvas you are working on modifies the previous ones in an unending, baffling chain which never seems to finish. What sympathy is demanded of the….

Painting seems like impossibility, with only a sign now and then of its own light..

Frustration is one of the great things in art. Satisfaction is nothing..

There comes a point when the paint doesn't feel like paint. I don't know why. Some mysterious thing happens. I think you have all experienced it... W….

To paint is a possessing rather than a picturing..

No good to paint in the head - what happens is what happens when you put the paint down - you can only hope that you are alert - ready - to see. What….

More than a process, painting is being possessed..

There is something mysterious in this work that I do not ever what to discover..

I'm not interested in painting; I'm not interested in making a picture. Then what the hell am I interested in? I must be interested in this process..

There are so many things in the world - in the cities - so much to see. Does art need to represent this variety and contribute to its proliferation? ….

I have a studio in the country - in the woods - but my paintings look more real to me than what is outdoors. You walk outside; the rocks are inert; e….

It is the bareness of drawing that I like. The act of drawing is what locates, suggests, discovers. At times it seems enough to draw, without the dis….

Painting is an illusion, a piece of magic, so what you see is not what you see..

To will a new form is unacceptable, because will builds distortion. Desire, too, is incomplete and arbitrary. These strategies, however intimate they….

The canvas is a court where the artist is prosecutor, defendant, jury and judge. Art without a trial disappears at a glance..

It is possible to make a living thing, not a diagram of what I have been thinking: to posit with paint something living, something that changes each ….

There's some mysterious process at work here, which I don't even want to understand..

We are image-makers and image-ridden... We work until we vanish..

Then you learn about composition, you learn about old masters, you form certain ideas about structure. But the inhuman activity of trying to make som….

That's what I mean by something grips in a canvas. The moment that happens you are then sucked into the whole thing. Like some kind of rhythm..

Painting and sculpture are very archaic forms. It's the only thing left in our industrial society where an individual alone can make something with n….