I feel as though the world is a friendly boy walking along in the sun.

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

My art is about paying attention - about the extremely dangerous possibility that you might be art.

I feel strong in my belief, based on my widely traveled collaborations, that a one-to-one contact through art contains potent peaceful powers, and is the most non-elitist way to share information, hopefully seducing us into creating mutual understandings for the benefit of all.

I used to think of that line in Allen Ginsberg's 'Howl', about the 'sad cup of coffee'.. ..I have had cold coffee and hot coffee and lousy coffee, But I've never had a sad cup of coffee.

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.

There was something about the self-confession and self-confusion of Abstract expressionism - as though the man and the work were the same - that personally always put me off because at that time my focus was in the opposite direction.