There is no reason not to consider the world as one gigantic painting.

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

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.

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.

I don't want a picture to look like something it isn't. I want it to look like something it is.

I don't really trust ideas - especially good ones... Rather, I put my trust in the materials that confront me, because they put me in touch with the unknown.

Well, I like way downtown near the Battery. I lived down there at this time and for, I guess, the following well, this is where I moved to uptown and I've been here for four years and this is 1965.