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

As one gets older one sees many more paths that could be taken. Artists sense within their own work that kind of swelling of possibilities, which may seem a freedom or a confusion.

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.

One wants one's work to be the world, but of course it's never the world. The work is in the world; it never contains the whole thing.

I don't want my work to be an exposure of my feelings.

In the place where I was a child, there were no artists and there was no art, so I really didn't know what that meant. I think I thought it meant that I would be in a situation different than the one that I was in.