Happiness is being on the beam with life - to feel the pull of life
I'm very careful not to have ideas, because they're inaccurate.
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.
It's through discipline and tremendous disappointment and failure that you arrive at what it is you must paint.
Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye, it is in the mind.
When I first made a grid I happened to be thinking of the innocence of trees and then this grid came into my mind and I thought it represented innocence, and I still do, and so I painted it and then I was satisfied. I thought, this is my vision.