An empty canvas is full only if you want it to be full.

The only thing that I could get with chance, and I never was able to use it, was that I would end up with something quite geometric or the spirit that I was interested in, indulging in, was gone.

If you don't have trouble paying the rent, you have trouble doing something else; one needs just a certain amount of trouble.

And also the new excitement and variety of ways that the abstract expressionists were applying paint. You could put it on as though it were colored air and it would be painting.

With me, it's much more a matter of accepting whatever happens, accepting all these elements from the outside and then trying to work with them in a sort of free collaboration.

I feel as though the world is a friendly boy walking along in the sun.

The artist's job is to be a witness to his time in history.