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

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

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.

Collage is the twentieth century's greatest innovation

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

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.

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.