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.

In printmaking, I essentially use the same process as in painting with one important exception ... to try, with sensitivity to the medium to emphasize what printing can do best ... better than say, painting or collaging or watercolour or drawing or whatever ... Otherwise, the artist expresses the same vision in graphics that he does in his other work.

Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it.

Art is an experience, not an object.

If you can't find your inspiration by walking around the block one time, go around two times-but never three.

In the brush doing what it is doing, it will stumble on what one could not do by oneself.

One of the most striking aspects of abstract art's appearance is her nakedness, an art stripped bare.