I don't believe in the reality of painting, so I use different styles like clothes: it's a way to disguise myself.

I don't create blurs. Blurring is not the most important thing; nor is it an identity tag for my pictures.

Art is the highest form of hope.

It is a danger to wait around for an idea to occur to you. You have to find the idea.

A lot of different things had to come together over the years, accumulated experiences of a general and personal nature, before the idea and the decision were developed and then carried out.

I like everything that has no style: dictionaries, photographs, nature, myself and my paintings. (Because style is violent, and I am not violent.)

I would like to try to understand what is. We know very little, and I am trying to do it by creating analogies. Almost every work of art is an analogy.

All photographs are far more important than any painting.

Picturing things, taking a view, is what makes us human; art is making sense and giving shape to that sense. It is like the religious search for God.

I want pictorial content without sentiment, but I want it as human as possible

Abstract pictures are fictive models, because they make visible a reality that we can neither see nor describe, but whose existence we can postulate.

Happiness lies first of all in health.

I do have a ridiculously high hedonic set-point

There is a huge antipathy in England between the north and the south, the working class and the owning class.

The only way I can endure the future is to ignore it.

Coincidence is a messenger sent by truth.

Empires won by conquest have always fallen either by revolt within or by defeat by a rival.

I am sincere, ma petite, even when I lie.

There are times when the kindness of strangers only makes things worse because one realizes how badly one is in need of kindness and that the only source is a stranger.

If we do not provide education for every single American, we are consigning those without an education to second-class status.

Adolescent stage in the development of the human race from which humanity should free itself.