So that ideas of sort of relaxed symmetry have been something for years that I have been concerned with because I think that symmetry is a neutral shape as opposed to a form of design.

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

If you don't have trouble paying the rent, you have trouble doing something else; one needs just a certain amount of trouble.

I am sick of talking about What and Why I am doing. I have always believed that the WORK is the word. Action is seen less clearly through reason. There are no shortcuts to directness.

I don't want a picture to look like something it isn't. I want it to look like something it is.

There was a whole language that I could never make function for myself; it revolved around words like 'tortured', 'struggle'. 'pain'.. .I could never see these qualities in paint - I could see them in life and art that illustrates life. But I could not see such conflicts in the materials and I knew that it had to be in the attitude of the painter.

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