When making a painting, only one thing counts: what you do next.

Making art is like swimming underwater in a blindfold.

An ivory tower is a fine place as long as the door is open.

No high-minded painter of the last fifty years has been able to come to terms with his art without coming to terms with the problem of cubism.

Most people find facts irritating. Facts interfere with their systems of denial.

What is sublime? / the artist said. / I haven't time / to be well read. / To be sub lime / I'll place, instead, / green citrus fruit / upon my head.

Always let intuitive perception precede analysis.

Postmodernism is Modernism with Alzheimer's.

Writing about art is only useful when it leads to the experience of art.

When you are painting a landscape, assume the painting is real and the landscape is an illusion.

Postmodernism is silly and joyless at the same time.

No one taught us how to address our impulses. No one.

Even if others tried to prove me wrong, I know myself that what I said was right.

-"-A book takes me a year to write. It's too hard work for a revenge."-"If you knew how little you had to revenge...".

Anticipation is the greater part of pleasure.

There are so many ways of saying Hi. Hiss it, trill it, bark it, sing it, bellow it, laugh it, cough it. A simple stroll in the hallway calls for paragraphs, sentences in your head, decisions galore.

My mum brought me up to think that personal happiness is more important than your family.

A man is a great bundle of tools. He is born into this life without the knowledge of how to use them. Education is the process of learning their use.

I have been to Turkey almost every summer holiday of my life and pretty much only on summer holidays, which makes me a very shallow Turk indeed.

The function of art is to free the spirit of man and to invigorate and enlarge his vision.

The outer kingdom is not our real home. The inner kingdom is our everything.