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.

An empty canvas is full only if you want it to be full.

I'm sure we don't read old paintings the way they were intended

Art is a means to function thoroughly and passionately in a world that has a lot more to it than paint.

It is neither Art for Art, nor Art against Art. I am for Art, but for Art that has nothing to do with Art. Art has everything to do with life, but it has nothing to do with Art.

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.

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