In art one idea is as good as another.

The past does not influence me; I influence it.

Art never seems to make me peaceful or pure.

I make pictures and someone comes in and calls it art.

Art should not have to be a certain way,

the word 'abstract' comes from the light tower of the philosophers ... one of their spotlights that they have particularly focussed on 'Art' ... (abstraction was) not so much what you could paint but rather what you could not paint. You could not paint a house or a tree or a mountain. It was then that subject matter came into existence as something you ought not have.

An artist is someone who makes art... He didn't invent it...

Once, after finishing a picture, I thought I would stop for awhile, take a trip, do things-the next time I thought of this, I found five years had gone by.

Spiritually I am wherever my spirit allows me to be, and that is not necessarily in the future... Art never seems to make me peaceful or pure...