I feel strong in my belief, based on my widely traveled collaborations, that a one-to-one contact through art contains potent peaceful powers, and is the most non-elitist way to share information, hopefully seducing us into creating mutual understandings for the benefit of all.

Success is a worn down pencil.

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.

This telegram is a work of art if I say it is.

There was a whole language that I could never make function for myself in relationship to painting, and that was attitudes like tortured, struggle, pain.

But I was in awe of the painters; I mean I was new in New York, and I thought the painting that was going on here was just unbelievable

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