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I could live a thousand years and still not know everything, still not have tried anything.

I slowly dismantled the act of painting, to consider the possibility that no-thing ever really transcends its immediate environment.

I would have loved to have been a painter or a sculptor. I'm still fascinated by those things.

It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.

In my previous life, I was an artist. I still paint. I love art.

See, when I paint, it is an experience that, at its best, is transcending reality.

Painting is not for me either decorative amusement, or the plastic invention of felt reality; it must be every time: invention, discovery, revelation.

Until 1954, I'd only ever thought of being a painter, but I earned my money when and where I could. You could say I drifted into writing.

I hope I will be able to paint as long as I live.

I had wanted to be a sculptor throughout life, but to do so, I had to stop painting.