It is neither Art for Art, nor Art against Art. I am for Art, but for Art that has nothing to do with Art. Art has everything to do with life, but it has nothing to do with Art.

You can't make either life or art, you have to work in the hole in between, which is undefined. That's what makes the adventure of painting.

I want my paintings to look like what's going on outside my window rather than what's inside my studio.

Most artists try to break your heart, or they accidentally break their own hearts.But I find the quietness in the ordinary much more satisfying.

Art is a means to function thoroughly and passionately in a world that has a lot more to it than paint.

And also the new excitement and variety of ways that the abstract expressionists were applying paint. You could put it on as though it were colored air and it would be painting.

I think a painting is more like the real world if it's made out the real world.