Art Is Much Less Important Than Life,

To Pick Up A Cigarette Wrapper Or Wine Label Or An Old Letter Or The End Of A Carton Is My Way Of Dealing With Those Things That Do Not Originate In Me, In My I.

It Is The Medium, Or The Specific Configuration Of The Medium, That We Call A Work Of Art That Brings Feeling Into Being.

It's Not That The Creative Act And The Critical Act Are Simultaneous. It's More Like You Blurt Something Out And Then Analyze It.

It May Be That The Deep Necessity Of Art Is The Examination Of Individual's And Society's Self-deception.

If You Give A Child Something Very Complex To Paint, Such As A Bouquet Of Flowers Or A Natural Landscape, If He Is Very Good, Eventually He Will Get Back - Like Cezanne - To The Essential Forms Of What He Sees.