I have no ideas about what the paintings imply about the world. I don't think that's a painter's business. He just paints paintings without a conscious reason.

I think a painting should include more experience than simply intended statement.

One night I dreamed that I painted a large American flag, and the next morning I got up and I went out and bought the materials to begin it.

Everybody is of course free to interpret the work in his own way. I think seeing a picture is one thing and interpreting it is another.

There may or may not be an idea, and the meaning may just be that the painting exists.

Old art offers just as good a criticism of new art as new art offers of old.

I’m interested in things which suggest the world rather than express the personality... The most conventional thing, the most ordinary - it seems to me that those things can be dealt with without having to judge them; they seem to me to exist as clear facts, not involving aesthetic hierarchy.