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

And I think a painting has such a limited life anyway

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

An empty canvas is full.

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

Well, I like way downtown near the Battery. I lived down there at this time and for, I guess, the following well, this is where I moved to uptown and I've been here for four years and this is 1965.

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