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

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.

I don't mess around with my subconscious

I wouldn't use the same color in a picture in more than one place

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.

I don't think any one person, whether artist or not, has been given permission by anyone to put the responsibility of the way things are on anyone else

Sometimes I have taken photographs and just felt so excited that I could barely hold the camera steady, and the photo was boring.