In a place like the Guggenheim, I would like to be a representative of arte povera. This would be my ideal.

The artist is not responsible to any one. His social role is asocial... his only responsibility consists in an attitude to the work he does.

What counts most is finding new ways to get the world down in paint on my own terms.

I begin with an idea, but as I work, the picture takes over. Then there is the struggle between the idea I preconceived... and the picture that fights for its own life.

Women don't paint very well. It's a fact. There are, of course, exceptions. Agnes Martin or, from the past, Paula Modersohn-Becker.

An object painted upside down is suitable for painting because it is unsuitable as an object.

I had always loved expressionist painting, like every European. In fact I admired it all the more because these were precisely the paintings despised by my father's generation.

Art is visceral and vulgar - it's an eruption.

I hang my work upside down to emphasize surface.

The reality is the picture, it is most certainly not in the picture.

What I could never escape was Germany, and being German.

Those who are wise won't be busy, and those who are too busy can't be wise.

Hope is my joy.

I smile thinly, to make it clear that this will happen when hell turns into a family friendly summer resort.

Best trust the happy moments. ... The days that make us happy make us wise.

I understand what it is to go through emotional trauma and retreat and go into the world of your imagination. I understand how art and music can be a place of safety in a world of reinvention.

If I bring up political power, personal power, it sounds like they're my terms, and they're not.

Nobody knows this, but one of us has just been traded to Kansas City.

The essence of conservative ideology is its being anchored in the divine order of things.

Is love a fancy, or a feeling?

The cross is not only imposed upon the saints as their burden, but bequeathed unto them as their legacy. It is given unto them as an honor and privilege.