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

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 think a painting is more like the real world if it's made out the real world.

The artist's job is to be a witness to his time in history.

Work is my joy... Work is my therapy, I don't know anybody who loves work as much as I do.

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

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