I feel most real to myself in the studio.

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.

It may be that the deep necessity of art is the examination of individual's and society's self-deception.

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

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

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

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