I'm never drawing the object itself; I'm only drawing a depiction of the object - a kind of crystallized symbol of it.

I like to pretend that my art has nothing to do with me.

We're not living in a school-of-Paris world, you know, and the things we really see in America are like this. It's McDonald's, it's not Le Corbusier.

When I met Steve Kaufman, I thought he was Gene Simmons, but what an artist talent he is. He will be an art force in the art world to deal with.

The big tradition, I think, is unity. And I have that in mind; and with that, you know, you could break all the traditions- all the other so-called rules, because they are stylistic.. and most are not true. As long as the marks are related to one another, there is unity. Unity in the work itself depends on unity of the artist's vision.

Color is crucial in painting, but it is very hard to talk about.

Art doesn't transform. It just plain forms.