All autobiography is self-indulgent.

All autobiography is self-indulgent.

An artist is someone who produces things that people don't need to have but that he - for some reason read more

An artist is someone who produces things that people don't need to have but that he - for some reason - thinks it would be a good idea to give them.

For me, painting is a way to forget life. It is a cry in the night, a strangled laugh.

For me, painting is a way to forget life. It is a cry in the night, a strangled laugh.

I paint with shapes.

I paint with shapes.

You don't take a photograph, you make it.

You don't take a photograph, you make it.

The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing.

The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing.

Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artist's metaphysical value-judgments. An artist recreates those aspects of reality read more

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.

The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness.

The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness.

I didn't have any interest in traditional art.

I didn't have any interest in traditional art.