What is seen and called the picture is what remains - an evidence. Even as one travels in painting toward a state of 'unfreedom' where only certain t….

Painting is an illusion, a piece of magic, so what you see is not what you see. I don't know what a painting is; who knows what sets off even the des….

All these troubles revolve around the irritable mutual dependence of life and art - with their need and contempt for one another. Of necessity, to cr….

The things I felt... about certain painters of the past that... inspired me, like Cezanne and Manet... that complete losing of oneself in the work to….

I go to the studio everyday because one day I may go and the Angel will be there. What if I don't go and the Angel comes?.

If the artist starts evaluating himself, it’s an enormous block, isn’t it?.

You know, comments about style always seem strange to me - 'why do you work in this style, or in that style' - as if you had a choice in the matter..….

In my experience a painting is not made with colors and paint at all. I don't know what a painting is; who knows what sets off even the desire to pai….

Look at any inspired painting. It's like a gong sounding; it puts you in a state of reverberation..

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….

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….

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….

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….

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

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'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..

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….

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

More than a process, painting is being possessed..

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

To paint is a possessing rather than a picturing..