To be an artist you have to give up everything, including the desire to be a good artist.

I'm working in my mind.

I often find that having an idea in my head prevents me from doing something else. Working is therefore a way of getting rid of an idea.

Intention involves such a small fragment of our consciousness and of our mind and of our life.

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.

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.

I'm not sure what 'coming out right' means. It often means that what you do holds a kind of energy that you wouldn't just put there, that comes about through grace of some sort.