I decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale, you could not ignore its beauty.

The abstraction is often the most definite form for the intangible thing in myself that I can clarify in paint.

I have a single track mind. I work on an idea for a long time. It's like getting acquainted with a person, and I don't get acquainted easily.

There's something about black. You feel hidden away in it.

I often painted fragments of things because it seemed to make my statement as well as or better than the whole could.

One can't paint New York as it is, but rather as it is felt.

I get out my work and have a show for myself before I have it publicly. I make up my own mind about it-how good or bad or indifferent it is. After that, the critics can write what they please. I have already settled it for myself so flattery and criticism go down the same drain and I am quite free.