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The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.
If I was an artist and I was in the studio, then whatever I was doing in the studio must be art.
The painting should be a fact, not a representation.
I'm interested in things which suggest the world rather than suggest the personality.
The aim of art is not to represent the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
The documenta must always be a risk, never a routine.
The role of the artist is to create situations where things can happen.
To be an artist is to see things differently.
My art is a never-ending story.
I like everything that has no style: dictionaries, photographs, nature, myself and my paintings.
The moment of creation is the most important thing.
Money complicates things, but it doesn't change the fact that art is about life and death.
The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason.
I'm interested in the edges of things.
I'm interested in what happens when things fall apart.
I'm not interested in telling my own story, but in telling the story of everyone.
Art has the power to make the familiar strange and the strange familiar.
The space between things is often more important than the things themselves.
I'm interested in the way things are connected and how they influence each other.
A painting must be beautiful in itself, not because it represents something beautiful.