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.

When something is new to us, we treat it as an experience. We feel that our senses are awake and clear. We are alive.

Merce is my favorite artist in any field.

I love drawings, so I've always enjoyed making drawings that exist on their own.

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.

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.

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.