Collage is the twentieth century's greatest innovation

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.

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.

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.

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