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

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.

With me, it's much more a matter of accepting whatever happens, accepting all these elements from the outside and then trying to work with them in a sort of free collaboration.

I usually work in a direction until I know how to do it, then I stop, At the time that I am bored or understand - I use those words interchangeably - another appetite has formed.

I don't think he (Joseph Albers, fh) ever realized that it was his discipline that I came for. Besides, my response to what I learned from him was just the opposite of what he intended.. ..I was very hesitant about arbitrarily designing forms and selecting colors that would achieve some predetermined result, because I didn't have any ideas to support that sort of thing - I didn't want color to serve me, in other words.

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

You begin with the possibilities of the material.