By the time you establish your priorities, there really isn't any fun or need to interest yourself in what you're doing. And this I find disastrous.

The only thing that I could get with chance, and I never was able to use it, was that I would end up with something quite geometric or the spirit that I was interested in, indulging in, was gone.

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

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

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

This was my first encounter with art as art (he saw 'Pinky' painted by Sir Thomas Lawrence and 'The Blue Boy" painted by Thomas Gainborough).. ..somebody actually MADE those paintings.. ..(it) was the first time I realized you could be an artist.

I'm not so facile that I can accomplish or find out what I want to know or explore enough of the possibilities and a way of making a painting, say, in just one painting or two paintings.