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

I've not been cursed with talent, which could be a great inhibitor.

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

I always have a good reason for taking something out but I never have one for putting something in. And I don't want to, because that means that the picture is being painted predigested.

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.

I'm not so facile that I can accomplish or find out what I want to know or explore enough of the possibilities and a way of making a painting, say, in just one painting or two paintings.

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