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

Painting relates to both art and life. Neither can be made - I try to act in the gap.

And all of this, all these physical aspects of painting at that time excited me very much. You could do a picture in just black and white. I mean all the things, whether you're soliciting permission or not, do give you permission

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.

Understanding is a form of blindness. Good art, I think, can never be understood.

This is a portrait of Iris Clert if I say so.

I got so I was really just sick of sculpture.