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

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.

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.

I think a painting is more like the real world if it's made out the real world.

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

I never allowed myself the luxury of those brilliant, beautiful colors until I went to India and saw people walking around in them or dragging them in the mud. I realised they were not so artificial.

Photography is the most direct communication in non-violent contacts.