While my classmates were reading their textbooks, I drew in the margins.

Painting relates to both art and life. Neither can be made - I try to act in the gap.

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

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

I don't mess around with my subconscious

One has to believe in what one is doing, one has to commit oneself inwardly, in order to do painting. Once obsessed, one ultimately carries it to the point of believing that one might change human beings through painting. But if one lacks this passionate commitment, there is nothing left to do. Then it is best to leave it alone.

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