The working process is ideally freeing my mind.

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

I don't think he (Joseph Albers, fh) ever realized that it was his discipline that I came for. Besides, my response to what I learned from him was just the opposite of what he intended.. ..I was very hesitant about arbitrarily designing forms and selecting colors that would achieve some predetermined result, because I didn't have any ideas to support that sort of thing - I didn't want color to serve me, in other words.

It is neither Art for Art, nor Art against Art. I am for Art, but for Art that has nothing to do with Art. Art has everything to do with life, but it has nothing to do with Art.

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.

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

Curiosity is the main energy.