To Work From Nature Is To Improvise.

Perspective Is A Ghastly Mistake Which It Has Taken Four Centuries To Redress.

To Explain Away The Mystery Of A Great Painting - If Such A Feat Were Possible - Would Do Irreparable Harm... If There Is No Mystery, Then There Is No Poetry, The Quality I Value Above All Else In Art.

Take The Birds Which You'll Have Noticed In So Many Of My Recent Paintings. I Never Thought Them Up, They Just Materialized Of Their Own Accord; They Were Born On The Canvas... It Is Absurd To Read Any Sort Of Symbolic Significance Into Them.

I Do Not Believe In Objects. I Believe Only In Their Relationships.

Evidence Exhausts The Truth.