1. “If you’re a painter, you’re not alone. There’s no way to be alone.”
2. “People sometimes think I take a white canvas and paint a black sign, on it, but this is not true. i paint the white as well as the black and the white is just as important.”
3. “You instinctively like what you can’t do.”
4. “To be right is the most terrific personal state that nobody is interested in.”
5. “I paint not the things I see but the feelings they arouse in me.”
6. “The nature of anguish is translated into different forms.”
7. “The final test of a painting, theirs, mine, any other, is: does the painter’s emotions come across?”
8. “If I feel a painting I’m working on doesn’t have imagery or emotion, I paint it out and work over it until it does.”
9. “You paint the way you have to in order to give. That’s life itself, and someone will look and say it is the product of knowing, but it has nothing to do with knowing, it has to do with giving.”
10. “I think that if you use long lines, they become – what could they be? The only thing they could be is either highways or architecture or bridges.”
