1. “The canvas is a court where the artist is prosecutor, defendant, jury and judge. Art without a trial disappears at a glance.”
2. “Painting seems like impossibility, with only a sign now and then of its own light.”
3. “To paint is a processing rather than a picturing.”
4. “Look at any inspired painting. It’s like a gong sounding; it puts you in a state of reverberation.”
5. “Painting seems like some kind of peculiar miracle that I need to have again and again.”
6. “I am a night painter, so when I come into the studio the next morning the delirium is over.”
7. “Painting is an illusion, a piece of magic, so what you see is not what you see.”
8. “There is something mysterious in this work that I do not ever what to discover.”
9. “We are image-makers and image- ridden… We work until we vanish.”
10. “Frustration is one of the great things in art. Satisfaction is nothing.”
