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You know I was curious - I was interested in all kinds of mystery or deeper meanings in the paintings because I myself have not analyzed why they have turned out like this or like that.

Good painting is the kind that looks like sculpture.

The painting is not on a surface, but on a plane which is imagined. It moves in a mind. It is not there physically at all. It is an illusion, a piece of magic, so that what you see is not what you see.

Art is very tricky because it's what you do for yourself. It's much harder for me to make those works than the monuments or the architecture.

Art is like a border of flowers along the course of civilization.

Painting keeps me occupied in those moments when travel can be aimless and even disorienting. Mainly it is a way to register at least some of the new impressions of a foreign place, when its thrilling barrage can sometimes overwhelm you.

My paintings are not about what is seen. They are about what is known forever in the mind.

I believe that painting should come through the avenues of meditation rather than the canals of action.

Some time ago, we went to Asia and took a camera along, and I began to do what I'd done even years ago doing people. I couldn't get interested in it. And I did hundreds of photographs of details of the monuments as sculpture.

The design of a city is like a strange archeology.