Basically painting is total idiocy.

And all of this, all these physical aspects of painting at that time excited me very much. You could do a picture in just black and white. I mean all the things, whether you're soliciting permission or not, do give you permission

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

You wait until life is in the frame, then you have the permission to click. I like the adventure of waiting until the whole frame is full.

Screwing things up is a virtue. Being correct is never the point. I have an almost fanatically correct assistant, and by the time she re-spells my words and corrects my punctuation, I can't read what I wrote. Being right can stop all the momentum of a very interesting idea.

Very quickly a painting is turned into a facsimile of itself when one becomes so familiar with with it that one recognizes it without looking at it.

Work is my joy... Work is my therapy, I don't know anybody who loves work as much as I do.