 | "An artist is forced by others to paint out of his own free will." |
| "My interest in desperation lies only in that sometimes I find myself having become desperate. Very seldom do I start out that way. I can see of course that, in the abstract, thinking and all activity is rather desperate." |
| "Style is a fraud. I always felt the Greeks were hiding behind their columns." |
| "The attitude that nature is chaotic and that the artist puts order into it is a very absurd point of view, I think. All that we can hope for is to put some order into ourselves." |
| "The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all your time." |
| "Whatever an artist's personal feelings are, as soon as an artist fills a certain area on the canvas or circumscribes it, he becomes historical. He acts from or upon other artists." |
