I don't know how to organise thoughts. I don't know how to have thoughts.

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.

In my early work, I tried to hide my personality, my psychological state, my emotions. This was partly due to my feelings about myself and partly due to my feelings about painting at the time. I sort of stuck to my guns for a while but eventually it seemed like a losing battle. Finally one must simply drop the reserve.

I am just trying to find a way to make pictures.

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

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.

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.