Screwing things up is a virtue. Being correct is never the point. I have an almost fanatically correct assistant, and by the time she re-spells my words and corrects my punctuation, I can't read what I wrote. Being right can stop all the momentum of a very interesting idea.

It is impossible to have progress without conscience

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

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.

Most artists try to break your heart, or they accidentally break their own hearts.But I find the quietness in the ordinary much more satisfying.

Painting relates to both art and life. Neither can be made - I try to act in the gap.

There is no reason not to consider the world as one gigantic painting.