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

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.

To be an artist you have to give up everything, including the desire to be a good artist.

I am not strong on perfection.

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 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.

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