One never paints violently enough.
I have told myself a hundred times that painting - that is, the material thing called a painting - is no more than a pretext, the bridge between the mind of the painter and the mind of the spectator.
What is real for me are the illusions I create with my paintings. Everything else is quicksand.
Remember the enemy of all painting is gray: a painting will almost always appear grayer than it is, on account of its oblique position under the light.
Painters who are not colorists produce illumination, not painting.
