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

Painting is a medium in which the mind can actualize itself; it is a medium of thought. Thus painting, like music, tends to become its own content.

Wherever art appears, life disappears.

Most painting in the European tradition was painting the mask. Modern art rejected all that. Our subject matter was the person behind the mask.

In printmaking, I essentially use the same process as in painting with one important exception ... to try, with sensitivity to the medium to emphasize what printing can do best ... better than say, painting or collaging or watercolour or drawing or whatever ... Otherwise, the artist expresses the same vision in graphics that he does in his other work.

For twenty years I read a book a day, from the time I was seven until I was twenty-seven.

I feel most real to myself in the studio.