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.

And I think that even today, New York still has more of this unexpected quality around every corner than any place else. It's something quite extraordinary

I always have a good reason for taking something out but I never have one for putting something in. And I don't want to, because that means that the picture is being painted predigested.

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

I wouldn't use the same color in a picture in more than one place

Work is my joy... Work is my therapy, I don't know anybody who loves work as much as I do.

By the time you establish your priorities, there really isn't any fun or need to interest yourself in what you're doing. And this I find disastrous.