Progress In Art Does Not Consist In

There Is Only One Valuable Thing In Art: The Thing You Cannot Explain.

It Is The Limitation Of Means That Determines Style, Gives Rise To New Forms And Makes Creativity Possible.

The Painter Thinks In Terms Of Form And Color. The Goal Is Not To Be Concerned With The Reconstitution Of An Anecdotal Fact, But With Constitution Of A Pictorial Fact.

Truth Exists; Only Lies Are Invented.

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.