Why do you not do as I do? Letting go of your thoughts as though they were the cold ashes of a long dead fire?

The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason.

The white paintings came first; my silent piece came later.

Artists talk a lot about freedom. So, recalling the expression "free as a bird," Morton Feldman went to a park one day and spent some time watching our feathered friends. When he came back, he said, "You know? They're not free: they're fighting over bits of food.

You can feel an emotion; just don't think that it's so important.

It is not irritating to be where one is. It is only irritating to think one would like to be somewhere else.

Art is sort of an experimental station in which one tries out living.