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

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

It's not that the creative act and the critical act are simultaneous. It's more like you blurt something out and then analyze it.

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.

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

I feel most real to myself in the studio.

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