Try to capture what you can't bear to be without
I tend not to work with a specific person in mind. Art is a matter of statistics. It's not about individuals. It's about people.
My ideas are all the same but look different.
I do not know exactly why, but it seems to me that images do not belong to anybody but are instead there, at the disposal of all.
The current climate doesn't represent a threat to the production of art but to the market. I think it's time for artists to get over auction houses, galleries, and high-production-value exhibitions and start using our voices again.
I was a loser, most concerned with making a living. It took me 30 years to understand. . . I had to reinvent a system, find a way out, and set some rules that could work for me and a few others. I guess in the end that's what we all are trying to do.
The market is like a machine that needs to be constantly excited. It needs to constantly produce wealth and more excitement. There are some leading players who are always there before everyone else, and they set market trends, they make people safe about the excitement. Of course, those who buy it first are the first to drop it. It's an ongoing game.
Mathematics is much less formally complete and precise than computer programs.
Courage becomes a worthwhile and meaningful virtue when it is regarded not so much as a willingness to die manfully but as a determination to live decently.
I am working with the enthusiasm of a man from Marseilles eating bouillabaisse, which shouldn't come as a surprise to you because I am busy painting huge sunflowers.
The first river you paddle runs through the rest of your life. It bubbles up in pools and eddies to remind you who you are.