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.

Sometimes I have taken photographs and just felt so excited that I could barely hold the camera steady, and the photo was boring.

Every time I've moved, my work has changed radically.

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

And also the new excitement and variety of ways that the abstract expressionists were applying paint. You could put it on as though it were colored air and it would be painting.

The artist's job is to be a witness to his time in history.

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