Most of the power of painting comes through the manipulation of space... but I don't understand that.

One likes to think that one anticipates changes in the spaces we inhabit, and our ideas about space.

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

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.

Sometimes I see it and then paint it. Other times I paint it and then see it. Both are impure situations, and I prefer neither. At every point in nature there is something to see. My work contains similar possibilities for the changing focus of the eye.

My experience with life is that it's very fragmented. In one place certain kinds of thing occur, and in another place a different kind of thing occurs. I would like my work to have some vivid indication of those differences. I guess, in painting, it would amount to different kinds of space being represented in it.

Merce is my favorite artist in any field.