For me there is no difference between art and life.

You begin with the possibilities of the material.

Being right can stop all the momentum of a very interesting idea.

I've not been cursed with talent, which could be a great inhibitor.

You can't make either life or art, you have to work in the hole in between, which is undefined. That's what makes the adventure of painting.

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

I don't think he (Joseph Albers, fh) ever realized that it was his discipline that I came for. Besides, my response to what I learned from him was just the opposite of what he intended.. ..I was very hesitant about arbitrarily designing forms and selecting colors that would achieve some predetermined result, because I didn't have any ideas to support that sort of thing - I didn't want color to serve me, in other words.