A pair of socks is no less suitable to make a painting with than wood, nails, turpentine, oil and fabric.

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.

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.

People ask me, 'Don't you ever run out of ideas?' In the first place I don't use ideas. Every time I have an idea it's too limiting, and usually turns out to be a disappointment. But I haven't run out of curiosity.

The working process is ideally freeing my mind.

I don't like masterpieces having one-night stands in collectors' homes between auctions.

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