If you don't have trouble paying the rent, you have trouble doing something else; one needs just a certain amount of trouble.

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

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.

A pair of socks is no less suitable to make a painting with than wood, nails, turpentine, oil and fabric.

Every time I've moved, my work has changed radically.

An empty canvas is full only if you want it to be full.