As a human being, I am a citizen, but as an artist, I am asocial.

The artist is not responsible to any one. His social role is asocial... his only responsibility consists in an attitude to the work he does.

What counts most is finding new ways to get the world down in paint on my own terms.

I begin with an idea, but as I work, the picture takes over. Then there is the struggle between the idea I preconceived... and the picture that fights for its own life.

Women don't paint very well. It's a fact. There are, of course, exceptions. Agnes Martin or, from the past, Paula Modersohn-Becker.

An object painted upside down is suitable for painting because it is unsuitable as an object.

I had always loved expressionist painting, like every European. In fact I admired it all the more because these were precisely the paintings despised by my father's generation.

Art is visceral and vulgar - it's an eruption.

I hang my work upside down to emphasize surface.

The reality is the picture, it is most certainly not in the picture.

What I could never escape was Germany, and being German.

The office’ is a cemetery of dreams.

Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.

I will not perform in this city as long as the blatant targeting of black culture and minorities congregating is acceptable common practice.

Eratosthenes, the mapmaker who was the first man to accurately measure the size of the Earth, was a librarian.

I'm actually a softie. Tough guys get killed too early... I've got a full head of hair and don't wear eyeglasses.

I believe that prosperity has a purpose.

I'm crap at interviews. I'm just not very good at sentences.

Children will usually live up to our expectations.

As a person of color, I know race can't be stripped from admiration or preference.

Consideration of any kind are a crime against the German people and the soldier at the front.