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.

And I think that even today, New York still has more of this unexpected quality around every corner than any place else. It's something quite extraordinary

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

I feel strong in my belief, based on my widely traveled collaborations, that a one-to-one contact through art contains potent peaceful powers, and is the most non-elitist way to share information, hopefully seducing us into creating mutual understandings for the benefit of all.

I don't really trust ideas - especially good ones... Rather, I put my trust in the materials that confront me, because they put me in touch with the unknown.

While my classmates were reading their textbooks, I drew in the margins.

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