The paintings to me are always canvas, sculpture has always been metal, though I have made sculpture in wood also.

I felt that everything is beautiful, but that which man tries intentionally to make beautiful; that the work of an ordinary bricklayer is more valid than the artwork of all but a very few artists.

Shape and color are my two strong things. And by doing this, drawing plants has always led me into my paintings and my sculptures.

I think that if you can turn off the mind and look only with the eyes, ultimately everything becomes abstract.

The negative is just as important as the positive.

Everything that I saw became something to be made, and it had to be exactly as it was, with nothing added. It was a new freedom: there was no longer the need to compose. The subject was there already made, and I could take from everything. It all belonged to me: a glass roof of a factory, with its broken and patched panels, lines on a road map, a corner of a Braque painting, paper fragments in the street. It was all the same: anything goes.

I did not want windows, only skylights. I chose my painting wall as it has the best morning light.