I think, if one is a painter, all you experience does come out when you’re painting.

I am never free of the past. I have made it crystal clear that I believe the past is part of the present which becomes part of the future.

My own image of my work is that I no sooner settle into something than a break occurs. These breaks are always painful and depressing but despite them I see that there's a consistency that holds out, but is hard to define.

I think, if one is a painter, all you experience does come out when you’re painting.

I have never been able to understand the artist whose image never changes.

I knew de Kooning and I went to his studio so I knew about de Kooning's work. But only a little handful knew about it, you know. Maybe there were ten people that knew about it.

We get used to a certain kind of colour of form or format, and it's acceptable. And to puncture that is sticking your neck out a bit. And then pretty soon, that's very acceptable.