Every realistic picture represents a choice as to which features of reality should be given prominence; no painting ever captures the whole.

I destroy the painting as soon as I can see what it is. When I can make out something in it, I destroy it because it's no longer coming from my unconscious.

Collage-making, for me, is basically an act of painting, allowing me to indulge in an appetite for immediacy.

Monet's work would have been even greater if he had not abandoned figure-painting.

Painting is silent poetry and poetry spoken, painting.

I think we've got the transition set up pretty seamless. Obviously, weather plays a role in the painting of the field, but that's something we can't control.

I wanted a painting that shows a more simpler time.

Someday my paintings will be hanging in the Louvre. [Vincent Van Gogh]

... a canvas that I have covered is worth more than a blank canvas. My pretensions go no further; that is my right to paint, my reason for painting.

Some say they see poetry in my paintings; I see only science.