I Feel Most Real To

A Main Part Of The Struggle Of Art Has Been To Make An Art That Is Direct, Simple, Humane, Unconnected With Powers That Be In Their Essence... To The Degree That It Is Connected With The Bourgeoisie Via The Marketplace And So On Is Not Necessarily An Artist's Problem.

It Is True That Every Artist Has His Own Religion.

Art Is Much Less Important Than Life, But What A Poor Life Without It.

Every Intelligent Painter Carries The Whole Culture Of Modern Painting In His Head. It Is His Real Subject, Of Which Everything He Paints In Both An Homage And A Critique, And Everything He Says Is A Gloss.

For Twenty Years I Read A Book A Day, From The Time I Was Seven Until I Was Twenty-seven.