When critics or art historians or curators ask me why I still paint, the answer is that I am not naive.

When you feel concentrated within the intensity of making paintings, you know exactly what you are doing.

All art is failure. How one fails is a different matter.

Life is politics, basically, but you don't just go to a gallery and put the words 'art' and 'politics' on the wall.

It is not important to convince people; they should convince themselves, they should look with their own eyes.

An artwork should point in more than one direction, not be this sort of placating, self-demonstrating, witnessing element.

Every painting has a weakness and a breaking point, where the essence of a painting lies. In my case it is never in the centre.

The Good News does not hinge on words like do or change but on the powerless, irrelevant, and frightening words like belief and faith.

Coming to terms with the fact that my marriage was a failure was devastating and very difficult. I blamed myself for a lot of things. It took me a very long time to get over it.

In two years, there were 22 military coups d'etat, essentially in Africa and the third world. The coup d'etat of Algiers, in 1965, is what opened the path.

Change ain't looking for friends. Change calls the tune we all dance to.

Music was all over my house, and all over literally my genetic house, and my house in the literal sense. So I kind of couldn't avoid it.

I'm a total luddite when it comes to technology. Pretending I know how to use a computer is a challenge.

There's so much to think about when you're becoming an adult, and there's so many great poems about that apprehension and excitement.

I like a lot of glasses about - it highers the tone.

Ultimately, as individuals we each have to ask ourselves to be courageous and apply certain principles.

Observe how gently but surely the natural world renews itself daily.