It Is Not What An Artist Does

If You Know Exactly What You're Going To Do, What's The Good In Doing It?

Formerly Pictures Used To Move Towards Completion In Progressive Stages. Each Day Would Bring Something New. A Picture Was A Sum Of Additions. With Me, Picture Is A Sum Of Destructions. I Do A Picture, Then I Destroy It. But In The Long Run Nothing Is Lost; The Red That I Took Away From One Place Turns Up Somewhere Else.

When I Paint A Woman In An Armchair, The Armchair Is There To Show Illness And Death-or As A Protection.

If I Spit, They Will Take My Spit And Frame It As Great Art.

Every Act Of Creation Is First An Act Of Destruction.