With me, it's much more a matter of accepting whatever happens, accepting all these elements from the outside and then trying to work with them in a sort of free collaboration.

An empty canvas is full.

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

This telegram is a work of art if I say it is.

For me there is no difference between art and life.

There was a whole language that I could never make function for myself in relationship to painting, and that was attitudes like tortured, struggle, pain.

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