One of the most striking aspects of abstract art's appearance is her nakedness, an art stripped bare.

To end up with a canvas that is no less beautiful than the empty canvas is to begin with.

A main part of the struggle of art has been to make an art that is direct, simple, humane, unconnected with powers that be in their essence... To the degree that it is connected with the bourgeoisie via the marketplace and so on is not necessarily an artist's problem.

In the brush doing what it is doing, it will stumble on what one could not do by oneself.

Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it.

Every intelligent painter carries the whole culture of modern painting in his head. It is his real subject, of which everything he paints in both an homage and a critique, and everything he says is a gloss.

For me, the sketchbooks are more like a secret and wholly spontaneous jeu d'esprit and some of them I like as much as anything I have ever done. They are invariably without premeditation. I mean not only that I have no plan when I make them, I also have no plan to make them.