It's not about facts, it's about feelings. It's about remembering feelings and happiness. A definition of art is that it makes concrete our most subtle emotions. I think the highest form of art is music. It's the most abstract of all art expression.

It's through discipline and tremendous disappointment and failure that you arrive at what it is you must paint.

Fulfill your potential. That's the way to happiness.

Pollock was terrific. I think he freed himself of all kinds of worry about this world. Ran around and dripped, and then he managed to express ecstasy.

The worst thing you can think about when you're working is yourself.

I hope I have made it clear that the work is about perfection as we are aware of it in our minds but that the paintings are very far from being perfect - completely removed in fact - even as we ourselves are.

Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye, it is in the mind.