But I was in awe of the painters; I mean I was new in New York, and I thought the painting that was going on here was just unbelievable

I don't really trust ideas - especially good ones... Rather, I put my trust in the materials that confront me, because they put me in touch with the unknown.

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.

The working process is ideally freeing my mind.

Success is a worn down pencil.

I prefer images that are less specific, so there is room for everyone's imagination.

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