"Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun."

"The artist is a receptacle for the emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web."

"Give me a museum and I'll fill it."

"Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks."

"Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artist's metaphysical value-judgments. An artist recreates those aspects of reality which represent his fundamental view of man's nature."

"While I recognize the necessity for a basis of observed reality... true art lies in a reality that is felt."

"Anyone who says you can't see a thought simply doesn't know art."

"Our natures are a lot like oil, mix us with anything else, and we strive to swim on top."

"I invent nothing, I rediscover."

"The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it."