I always have a good reason for taking something out but I never have one for putting something in. And I don't want to, because that means that the picture is being painted predigested.

It is impossible to have progress without conscience

A newspaper that you're not reading can be used for anything; and the same people didn't think it was immoral to wrap their garbage in newspaper.

Painting relates to both art and life. Neither can be made - I try to act in the gap.

You have to have the time to feel sorry for yourself in order to be a good abstract expressionist.

There is no reason not to consider the world as one gigantic painting.

I'm sure we don't read old paintings the way they were intended