"Landscapes are about beauty and death. The only way you can define beauty.. ..is to know that death is hiding behind …"

"What I am after is 'bravura, an attempt to do something beyond the truth'.. .I do not seek truth before bravura, I se…"

"I believe that painting, in our meaning, is structures. Each application of paint to a surface is structure. This is,…"

"Painting is laying layer upon layer. Without exception it is fundamental to all painted pictures even if they look as…"

"Thus it is with all pictures, there are many layers, and with good reason an analysis nearly always deals with the la…"

"chapter 'Caption', p. 84"

"it doesn't care too much if it's from the 60's or from last year - it's kind of the same thing [in his paintings].. .…"

"To achieve the structure it takes a damn long time, so my paintings are always in work for a very long time—sometimes…"

"At my age [74], you realize that some things have caught you. You can see that as a positive or a negative. On the ne…"

"I have a garden and across the road, a park. I never go for walks, but I look out the window and 'ask for permission'…"