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.

I always rejected any connection with the expressionist or neo-expressionist tradition. Unlike the expressionists, I have never been interested in renewing the world through the vehicle of art.

I love my old paintings as postulates, as fresh starting points, but I have to destroy them. I have to make a new manifesto.

I always work out of uncertainty but when a painting's finished it becomes a fixed idea, apparently a final statement. In time though, uncertainty returns.. your thought process goes on.

Changes in style result from intellectual processes. I continually try to find something new so that I can change. I still do it today.

I don't like things that can be reproduced. Wood isn't important in itself but rather in the fact that objects made in it are unique, simple, unpretentious.

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.

I always work out of uncertainty but when a painting's finished it becomes a fixed idea, apparently a final statement. In time though, uncertainty returns... your thought process goes on.

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.