You begin with the possibilities of the material.

I prefer images that are less specific, so there is room for everyone's imagination.

I want my paintings to look like what's going on outside my window rather than what's inside my studio.

The artist's job is to be a witness to his time in history.

A newspaper that you're not reading can be used for anything; and the same people didn't think it was immoral to wrap their garbage in newspaper.

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.

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