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

If I declare it to be so, then this is a portrait.

Art is a means to function thoroughly and passionately in a world that has a lot more to it than paint.

And also the new excitement and variety of ways that the abstract expressionists were applying paint. You could put it on as though it were colored air and it would be painting.

Every time I've moved, my work has changed radically.

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.