Maturity

"A man's maturity consists in having found again the seriousness one had as a child, at play"

Friedrich Nietzsche - Beyond Good and Evil

Body

The painter should learn to trust his body.

Secret Motivations

I have found that painting most betrays its secret motivations when it deals with things strictly on its own terms. Only then did I understand that it (my painting activity) is to do with the most commonplace stuff of our daily life, and in the most intimate ways: the problems in painting reflect our experience of life. What we inevitably lose in life we attempt to recover in a transfigured way in painting.

The hazard

There is always a danger of becoming a parody of oneself.

At stake...

There is a very fine line between the worst possible piece of absolute trash and a wonderful painting. It is pure idiocy to talk of a painter who knows or doesn’t know how to paint. A painter who comes to realize what is really at stake in his daily activity has learnt how to value that which is constantly being found by chance or otherwise.