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

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

You can't make either life or art, you have to work in the hole in between, which is undefined. That's what makes the adventure of painting.

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.

It is neither Art for Art, nor Art against Art. I am for Art, but for Art that has nothing to do with Art. Art has everything to do with life, but it has nothing to do with Art.

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.

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