Success is a worn down pencil.

So that ideas of sort of relaxed symmetry have been something for years that I have been concerned with because I think that symmetry is a neutral shape as opposed to a form of design.

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.

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

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

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

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