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

I don't think any one person, whether artist or not, has been given permission by anyone to put the responsibility of the way things are on anyone else

There was something about the self-confession and self-confusion of Abstract expressionism - as though the man and the work were the same - that personally always put me off because at that time my focus was in the opposite direction.

Success is a worn down pencil.

If you don't have trouble paying the rent, you have trouble doing something else; one needs just a certain amount of trouble.

The only thing that I could get with chance, and I never was able to use it, was that I would end up with something quite geometric or the spirit that I was interested in, indulging in, was gone.

It is impossible to have progress without conscience