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It's not about perfection. What's a perfect painting? What's interesting about a perfect painting?

I don't think perfection is possible. I think you can attempt to reach perfection, but I don't think it's a possible thing. I think perfection is a moving point, and we spend our artistic lives chasing it.

My painting teacher in high school used to say, 'I can't paint like I want to, but through practice I'll get better.' But I don't think that's true. I think sometimes you just can't paint.

It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection.

The truth is that painting is all about scale; you use scale to create experience. A lot of artists have lost that ability. They don't even know that's something they should be doing.

When one paints an ideal, one does not need to limit one's imagination.

Painting is an essentially concrete art and can only consist of the representation of real and existing things.

You cannot possibly invent painting all by yourself.

No one can be a painter unless he cares for painting above all else.

I want to make beautiful paintings. But I don't make beautiful paintings by putting beautiful paint on a canvas with a beautiful motif. It just doesn't work. I expect my paintings to be strong and surprising.