The artist's job is to be a witness to his time in history.

I don't think any one person, whether artist or not, has been given permission by anyone to put the responsibility of the way things are on anyone else

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

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.

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.

Being right can stop all the momentum of a very interesting idea.

I prefer images that are less specific, so there is room for everyone's imagination.