“Old art offers just as good a criticism of new art as new art offers of old.”

“Art is either a complaint or appeasement.”

“Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it.”

“A not complete unit or a new unit. The elements in the 3 parts should neither fit nor not fit together.One would like not to be led. Avoid the idea of a puzzle which could be solved. Remove the signs of thought. It is not thought which needs showing.”

“I'm not sure what 'coming out right' means. It often means that what you do holds a kind of energy that you wouldn't just put there, that comes about through grace of some sort.”

“I assumed that everything would lead to complete failure, but I decided that didn't matter – that would be my life. ”

“I think that one wants from a painting a sense of life. The final suggestion, the final statement, has to be not a deliberate statement but a helpless statement. It has to be what you can't avoid saying.”