A picture ought to be looked at the same way you look at a radiator.

Merce is my favorite artist in any field.

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.

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

I think that one wants from a painting a sense of life. The final suggestion, the final statement, has to be not a deliberate statement but a helpless statement. It has to be what you can't avoid saying.

I am not strong on perfection.

I feel that works of art are an opportunity for people to construct meaning, so I don't usually tell what they mean. It conveys to people that they have to participate.