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

Well, I like way downtown near the Battery. I lived down there at this time and for, I guess, the following well, this is where I moved to uptown and I've been here for four years and this is 1965.

I don't really trust ideas - especially good ones... Rather, I put my trust in the materials that confront me, because they put me in touch with the unknown.

I really feel sorry for people who think things like soap dishes or mirrors or Coke bottles are ugly, because they're surrounded by things like that all day long, and it must make them miserable.

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

An empty canvas is full only if you want it to be full.

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