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I'm trying to paint a picture of what I have seen and what moved me, as well as I can. That's all.

I don't think I can do this - painting under observation. It's the worst thing there is, worse than being in the hospital.

I like everything that has no style: dictionaries, photographs, nature, myself and my paintings. (Because style is violent, and I am not violent.)

I believe that art has a kind of rightness, as in music, when we hear whether or not a note is false

I want pictorial content without sentiment, but I want it as human as possible

Art shows us how to see things that are constructive and good, and to be an active part of that.

It's our culture, Christian history, that's what formed me. Even as an atheist, I believe. We're just built that way.

I choose depending on the way I feel; randomly, in other words. When I haven't done anything for a long time, I always start small, on paper.

Gray is the color ... the most important of all ... absent of opinion, nothing, neither/nor.

To believe, one must have lost God. To paint, one must have lost art.

To make a photograph is already the first artificial act.

Art should be serious, not a joke. I don't like to laugh about art.

I believe that the quintessential task of every painter in any time has been to concentrate on the essential.

I have painted my family so frequently because they are the one who really affect me the most.

My paintings are wiser than I am.

When I look back on the townscapes now, they do seem to me to recall certain images of the destruction of Dresden during the war.

I do see myself as the heir to a vast, great, rich culture of painting - of art in general - which we have lost, but which places obligations on us.

Art is the highest form of hope.

I have always been structured. What has changed is the proportions. Now it is eight hours of paperwork and one of painting.

I don't create blurs. Blurring is not the most important thing; nor is it an identity tag for my pictures.

Chance determines our lives in important ways.

Good art in general aspires to something, as a good painting aspires to something, almost spiritual or holy.

They are specific places I have discovered here and there when I am on the road to take photos. I go especially to take photos.

Picturing things, taking a view, is what makes us human; art is making sense and giving shape to that sense. It is like the religious search for God.

Every museum is full of nice things. That's the opposite of before. It was important things or serious things. Now we have interesting things.

When I make a representation of something, this, too, is an analogy to what exists; I make an effort to get a grip on the thing by depicting it.

I believe that he knew more what he was doing. I might be absolutely wrong about this, but that was my impression.

Throwaway snapshots come closest to achieving the state of pure picture.

If the abstract paintings show my reality, then the landscapes and still-lifes show my yearning.

I can't paint as well as Vermeer.

All photographs are far more important than any painting.

I don't believe in the reality of painting, so I use different styles like clothes: it's a way to disguise myself.

I don't dare to think my paintings are great. I can't understand the arrogance of someone saying, 'I have created a big, important work.'

Well, I don't believe there are subjects that can't be painted, but there are a lot of things that I personally can't paint.

Art is the ideal medium for making contact with the transcendental, or at least for getting close to it.

Abstract pictures are fictive models, because they make visible a reality that we can neither see nor describe, but whose existence we can postulate.

I often need a long time to understand things, to imagine a painting I might make.

Painting is consequently an almost blind, desperate effort, like that of a person abandoned, helpless, in totally incomprehensible surroundings.

How could one be in this world without feeling dismayed by it? Even if one paints flowers and gingerbread.

I never worked at painting as if it were a job; it was always out of interest or for fun, a desire to try something.

I pursue no intentions, no directions; I have no program, no style and no mission.

It is a danger to wait around for an idea to occur to you. You have to find the idea.