1. “More than a process, painting is being possessed.”
2. “Look at any inspired painting. It’s like a gong sounding; it puts you in a state of reverberation.”
3. “Painting is an illusion, a piece of magic, so what you see is not what you see.”
4. “To paint is a processing rather than a picturing.”
5. “We are image-makers and image-ridden… We work until we vanish.”
6. “Painting seems like some kind of peculiar miracle that I need to have again and again.”
7. “Frustration is one of the great things in art. Satisfaction is nothing.”
8. “The canvas is a court where the artist is prosecutor, defendant, jury and judge. Art without a trial disappears at a glance.”
9. “I am a night painting, so when I come into the studio the next morning the delirium is over.”
10. “There’s some mysterious process at work here, which I don’t even want to understand.”
11. “Painting seems like impossibility with only a sign now and then of its own light”
12. “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 paint?”
13. “To paint is always to start at the beginning again, yet being unable to avoid the familiar arguments about what you see yourself painting.”
14. “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 feel destined.”
15. “If the artist starts evaluating himself, it’s an enormous block, isn’t it?”
