A Thing Which Is Present

Visible Things Can Be Invisible. However, Our Powers Of Thought Grasp Both The Visible And The Invisible – And I Make Use Of Painting To Render Thoughts Visible.

Painting Bores Me Like Everything Else. Unfortunately, Painting Is One Of The Activities - It Is Bound Up In The Series Of Activities - That Seems To Change Almost Nothing In Life, The Same Habits Are Always Recurring.

An Object Never Serves The Same Function As Its Image - Or Its Name.

My Painting Is Visible Images Which Conceal Nothing... They Evoke Mystery And Indeed When One Sees One Of My Pictures, One Asks Oneself This Simple Question 'what Does That Mean'? It Does Not Mean Anything, Because Mystery Means Nothing Either, It Is Unknowable.

The Famous Pipe. How People Reproached Me For It! And Yet, Could You Stuff My Pipe? No, It's Just A Representation, Is It Not? So If I Had Written On My Picture “this Is A Pipe”, I'd Have Been Lying!