Arrival = Prison, And The Artist Must

I Do Not Repudiate Any Of My Paintings But There Isn't One Of Them That I Would Not Redo Differently, If I Had It To Redo. My Destination Is Always The Same But I Work Out A Different Route To Get There.

Above All, An Artist Must Never Be Too Easily Satisfied With What He Has Done.

Everything That We See In Our Daily Lives Is More Or Less Distorted By Acquired Habits And This Is Perhaps More Evident In An Age Like Ours When Cinema Posters And Magazines Present Us Every Day With A Flood Of Ready-made Images Which Are To The Eye What Prejudices Are To The Mind. The Effort To See Things Without Distortion Demands A Kind Of Courage; And This Courage Is Essential To The Artist, Who Has To Look At Everything As Though He Were Seeing It For The First Time.

There Is No Interruption Between My Older Paintings And My Cutouts. Just That With An Increasing Sense Of The Absolute, And More Abstraction, I Have Achieved A Form That Is Simplified To Its Essence.

The Residuum Of Another's Expression Can Never Be Related To One's Own Feeling.