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

My drawings have to be quick. If they don't happen in 20 minutes or a half hour, then they're no good.

A lot of young painters love to incorporate celebrity. One idea of being a painter is to use what's happening at the time. Velázquez was painting of his time. And so was Rembrandt. And Francis Bacon was painting his time in London. He was a real mover, but he saw the insect in the rose. But yes, when I do a painting, I want to take the "I did this" out of it. That's why I started using chance, like the markings on the wood. I never wanted to compose.

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.

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

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

Geometry is moribund. I want a lilt and joy to art.