If you know what you're doing, you're doing dull stuff.

You usually want to get something out of a painting other than the ideas that you had in your head.

My mother thought I would have a hard life as a painter. My father thought the highest thing a person could be was an architect. Below that was a painter. So he thought it was much better than being, say, a doctor.

If you're going to go for 'it' you have a common thing you share with other artists; that's desperation. You jump out a window style-wise. Try to put it together before you hit the ground.

Make a painting you can work on for a long period, and make it look like it doesn't show any effort.

If you know what you're doing, you're doing dull stuff.

The abstract expressionists had that thing of, subject matter becomes content, content becomes form. And I always thought there was no room for style. I felt with my painting, the style really is the content. The style holds everything together.