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….

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?.

When I see people making 'abstract' painting, I think it's just a dialogue and a dialogue isn't enough. That is to say, there is you painting and thi….

Painting seems like some kind of peculiar miracle that I need to have again and again..

Usually I draw in relation to my painting, what I am working on at the time. On a lucky day a surprising balance of forms and spaces will appear... m….

I should like to paint like an man who has never seen a painting, but this man -myself - lives in a museum..

Usually I am on a work for a long stretch, until a moment arrives when the air of the arbitrary vanishes, and the paint falls into positions that fee….

Many works of the past complete what they announce they are going to do, to our increasing boredom. Certain others plague me because I cannot follow ….

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..….

I feel more as if I'm shaping something with my hands. I feel as if I've always wanted to get to that state. Like a blind man in a dark room had some….

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

Studio Ghosts: When you're in the studio painting, there are a lot of people in there with you - your teachers, friends, painters from history, criti….

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….

Probably the most potent desire for a painter, an image-maker, is to see it. To see what the mind can think and imagine, to realize it for oneself, t….

But you begin to feel as you go on working that unless painting proves its right to exist by being critical and self-judging, it has no reason to exi….

Do I really believe that? I make a mark, a few strokes, I argue with myself, not do I like or not, but is it true or not? Is that what I mean, is tha….

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….

Lots of artists who paint have the experience to one degree or another... where their thinking doesn't precede their doing... It's a funny thing, wha….

Sometimes I scrape off a lot. You have on the floor, like cow dung in the field, this big glob of paint... and it's just a lot of inert matter, inert….

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

To paint is always to start at the beginning again, yet being unable to avoid the familiar arguments about what you see yourself painting..