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

So that ideas of sort of relaxed symmetry have been something for years that I have been concerned with because I think that symmetry is a neutral shape as opposed to a form of design.

People ask me, 'Don't you ever run out of ideas?' In the first place I don't use ideas. Every time I have an idea it's too limiting, and usually turns out to be a disappointment. But I haven't run out of curiosity.

Basically painting is total idiocy.

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.

You wait until life is in the frame, then you have the permission to click. I like the adventure of waiting until the whole frame is full.

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