All painting is an accident. But it's also not an accident, because one must select what part of the accident one chooses to preserve.
If I go to the National Gallery and I look at one of the great paintings that excite me there, it's not so much the painting that excites me as that the painting unlocks all kinds of valves of sensation within me which return me to life more violently.
Everybody has his own interpretation of a painting he sees...
I paint for myself. I don't know how to do anything else, anyway. Also I have to earn my living, and occupy myself.
You want accuracy, but not representation. If you know how to make the figuration, it doesn't work. Anything you can make, you make by accident. In painting, you have to know what you do, not how, when you do it.
Painting is the pattern of one's own nervous system being projected on canvas.
We only have our nervous system to paint.
When I paint I am ageless, I just have the pleasure or the difficulty of painting.
Painting gave meaning to my life which without it would not have had