You can’t make either life or art, you have to work in the hole in between, which is undefined. That’s what makes the adventure of painting.
I don’t want a picture to look like something it isn’t. I want it to look like something it is.
People ask me, ‘Don’t you ever run out of ideas?’ In the first place I don’t use ideas. Every time I have an idea it’s too limiting, and usually turns out to be a disappointment. But I haven’t run out of curiosity.
It is impossible to have progress without conscience.
I always have searched for a point of view that a participant could change.
I really feel sorry for people who think things like soap dishes or mirrors or Coke bottles are ugly, because they’re surrounded by things like that all day long, and it must make them miserable.
I don’t mess around with my subconscious.
I want my paintings to look like what’s going on outside my window rather than what’s inside my studio.
I always have a good reason for taking something out but I never have one for putting something in. And I don’t want to, because that means that the picture is being painted predigested.
If I declare it to be so, then this is a portrait.
You wait until life is in the frame, then you have the permission to click. I like the adventure of waiting until the whole frame is full.
I prefer images that are less specific, so there is room for everyone’s imagination.
I’m quite taken aback when I get something that appears to be technically a good photograph, because it’s not necessarily my intention.
For me there is no difference between art and life.
Photography is the most direct communication in non-violent contacts.
Success is a worn down pencil.
There’s a moment for everyone when you fall into your own shadow and the fact is that it’s your shadow and you’re forced to live in it. And this is nothing to celebrate or not celebrate. It simply is.
With me, it’s much more a matter of accepting whatever happens, accepting all these elements from the outside and then trying to work with them in a sort of free collaboration.
Basically painting is total idiocy.
Understanding is a form of blindness. Good art, I think, can never be understood.