I've not been cursed with talent, which could be a great inhibitor.

If I declare it to be so, then this is a portrait.

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

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.

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.

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.