If the abstract paintings show my reality, then the landscapes and still-lifes show my yearning.

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.

...you know that a good, long session of weeping can often make you feel better, even if your circumstances have not changed one bit.

The only difference between a rut and a grave are the dimensions.

I distracted myself from the fear and terrorism by thinking about things like how the universe began and whether time travel is possible.

Death is something we really understand extremely well.

Tasteful rather than expensive.

To verify images kills them, and it is always more enriching to imagine than to experience.

We need to be reminded more than we need to be instructed

If I intimidate people, that's not my intention.

I like feeling a bit of an outcast where I am. I've always been that way. Somehow, I fit in by not fitting in.

To die is only to be as we were before we were born; yet no one feels any remorse, or regret, or repugnance, in contemplating this last idea.