 Everyone is of course free to interpret the work in his own way. I think seeing a picture is one thing and interpreting it is another. |
| One likes to think that one anticipates changes in the spaces we inhabit, and our ideas about space. |
| In the place where I was a child, there were no artists and there was no art, so I really didn't know what that meant. I think I thought it meant that I would be in a situation different than the one that I was in. |
| Most of the power of painting comes through the manipulation of space... but I don't understand that. |
| The thing is, if you believe in the unconscious - and I do - there's room for all kinds of possibilities that I don't know how you prove one way or another. |
| As one gets older one sees many more paths that could be taken. Artists sense within their own work that kind of swelling of possibilities, which may seem a freedom or a confusion. |
| When something is new to us, we treat it as an experience. We feel that our senses are awake and clear. We are alive. |
| Whatever I do seems artificial and false, to me. |
| I never wish for critics. |
| Sometimes I see it and then paint it. Other times I paint it and then see it. Both are impure situations, and I prefer neither. |
| I am just trying to find a way to make pictures. |
| I tend to like things that already exist. |
| Do something, do something to that, and then do something to that. |
| I have no ideas about what the paintings imply about the world. I don't think that's a painter's business. He just paints paintings without a conscious reason. |
| To be an artist you have to give up everything, including the desire to be a good artist. |
| Intention involves such a small fragment of our consciousness and of our mind and of our life. |
| One works without thinking how to work. |
| I often find that having an idea in my head prevents me from doing something else. Working is therefore a way of getting rid of an idea. |
| I think a painting should include more experience than simply intended statement. |
| I don't know how to organise thoughts. I don't know how to have thoughts. |
