One day when I was studying with Schoenberg, he pointed out the eraser on his pencil and said, 'This end is more important than the other.' After twenty years I learned to write directly in ink.

When you start working, everybody is in your studio- the past, your friends, enemies, the art world, and above all, your own ideas- all are there. But as you continue painting, they start leaving, one by one, and you are left completely alone. Then, if you are lucky, even you leave.

Be happy whenever you can manage it. Enjoy yourself. It's lighter than you think.

In the nature of the use of chance operations is the belief that all answers answer all questions.

People who aren't artists often feel that artists are inspired. But if you work at your art you don't have time to be inspired.

Now that things are so simple, there's so much to do.

As far as consistency of thought goes, I prefer inconsistency.