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.

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.

If you can't find your inspiration by walking around the block one time, go around two times-but never three.

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.

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

The abstractness of modern art has to do with how much an enlightened mind rejects of the contemporary social order.