I don't how I can describe the quality that is only found in art (be it music, literature, painting, or whatever), this quality, it's just there, and it endures.

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.

so many people concentrate on looks, but the invisible is sacred

Was this an old disease, and, if so, which one? If it was new, what did that say about the state of medical knowledge? And in any case, how could physicians make sense of it?

The people know their rights, and they are never slow to assert and maintain them, when they are invaded.

It's a good thing most people bleed on the inside or this would be a gory, blood-smeared earth.

Hell was OK, until some wise guy went to heaven and came back

I don't have a favorite. I need different genres at different times.

The Three Cs, I told myself. When you're not Comfortable with it, it's not a Compliment, it's Creepy.

In down times I do things like go for a long bike ride or run. The other thing I'm doing in that quiet time is just observing.

Give everything and look for no return.

The great quality of Dulness is to be unalterably contented with itself.