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

I always have a good reason for taking something out but I never have one for putting something in. And I don't want to, because that means that the picture is being painted predigested.

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.

By the time you establish your priorities, there really isn't any fun or need to interest yourself in what you're doing. And this I find disastrous.

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

The working process is ideally freeing my mind.

Understanding is a form of blindness. Good art, I think, can never be understood.