Every Intelligent Painter Carries The Whole Culture

What Could Be More Interesting, Or In The End, More Ecstatic, Than In Those Rare Moments When You See Another Person Look At Something You've Made, And Realize That They Got It Exactly, That Your Heart Jumped To Their Heart With Nothing In Between.

For Twenty Years I Read A Book A Day, From The Time I Was Seven Until I Was Twenty-seven.

Without Ethical Consciousness, A Painter Is Only A Decorator.

A Main Part Of The Struggle Of Art Has Been To Make An Art That Is Direct, Simple, Humane, Unconnected With Powers That Be In Their Essence... To The Degree That It Is Connected With The Bourgeoisie Via The Marketplace And So On Is Not Necessarily An Artist's Problem.

I Feel Most Real To Myself In The Studio.