“Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.”

“Everything you can imagine is real.”

“Give me a museum and I'll fill it.”

“Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone”

“There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.”

“Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.”

“Whatever the source of emotion that drives me to create, I want to give it a form which has some connection with the visible world, even if it is only to wage war on that world....I want my paintings to be able to defend themselves to resist the invader, just as though there were razor blades on all surfaces so no one could touch them without cutting his hands.”