We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images. Abstract art will have been good for one thing: to restore its exact virginity to figurative art.

Don't bother about being modern. Unfortunately it is the one thing that, whatever you do, you cannot avoid.

Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.

Just as pure abstract art is not dogmatic, neither is it decorative.

I'm just really impressed by oil paintings - I don't see how people do it! That's the style I like: classic oil paintings. Abstract art just isn't my thing.

I would like to say to those who think of my pictures as serene, whether in friendship or mere observation, that I have imprisoned the most utter violence in every inch of their surface.