"Drawing is the honesty of art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad".

"The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery".

"For me, art is always a kind of theater."

"One might not think of light as a matter of fact, but I do. And it is, as I said, as plain and open and direct an art as you will ever find."

"I paint with shapes."

"The artist is a receptacle for 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."

"I'm still very sure that painting is one of the most basic human capacities, like dancing and singing, that make sense, that stay with us, as something human."

"My fascination with letting images repeat and repeat - or in film's case 'run on' - manifests my belief that we spend much of our lives seeing without observing."

"The Force of Art lies in its immediate influence on human psychology and in its active contagiousness. "

"An artist can show things that other people are terrified of expressing."

"How you respond to a sculpture, how a viewer sees the sculpture is vital."

"In whatever one does, there must be a relationship between the eye and the heart. With the eye that is closed, one looks within, with the eye that is open, one looks without. "

"Freedom of expression is a very essential condition for me to make any art. Also, it is an essential value for my life. I have to protect this right and also to fight for the possibility ."

"It doesn't matter how the paint is put on, as long as something is said."

"With the most primitive means the artist creates something which the most ingenious and efficient technology will never be able to create. "

"It is very good advice to believe only what an artist does, rather than what he says about his work"

"Lend your ears to music, open your eyes to painting, and ..stop thinking! Just ask yourself if the work has enabled you to 'walk about' into a hitherto unknown world. If the answer is yes, what more do you want?"

"What do I ask of a painting? I ask it to astonish, disturb, seduce, convince"