My paintings are not about what is seen. They are about what is known forever in the mind.

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.

Doing what you were born to do … That's the way to be happy.

Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.

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

What I say is that we're capable of a transcendent response, and I think it makes us happy. And I do think beauty produces a transcendent response.

I'm very careful not to have ideas, because they're inaccurate.