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.

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

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'm sure we don't read old paintings the way they were intended

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

There was a whole language that I could never make function for myself in relationship to painting, and that was attitudes like tortured, struggle, pain.

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.