Sometimes I have taken photographs and just felt so excited that I could barely hold the camera steady, and the photo was boring.

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

By the time you establish your priorities, there really isn't any fun or need to interest yourself in what you're doing. And this I find disastrous.

Being right can stop all the momentum of a very interesting idea.

A pair of socks is no less suitable to make a painting with than wood, nails, turpentine, oil and fabric.

I usually work in a direction until I know how to do it, then I stop, At the time that I am bored or understand - I use those words interchangeably - another appetite has formed.

Screwing things up is a virtue. Being correct is never the point. I have an almost fanatically correct assistant, and by the time she re-spells my words and corrects my punctuation, I can't read what I wrote. Being right can stop all the momentum of a very interesting idea.