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

I used to think of that line in Allen Ginsberg's 'Howl', about the 'sad cup of coffee'.. ..I have had cold coffee and hot coffee and lousy coffee, But I've never had a sad cup of coffee.

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

While my classmates were reading their textbooks, I drew in the margins.

I don't mess around with my subconscious

Well, I like way downtown near the Battery. I lived down there at this time and for, I guess, the following well, this is where I moved to uptown and I've been here for four years and this is 1965.

For me there is no difference between art and life.