Discipline is not a restriction but an aid to freedom.

Every paint-stroke takes you farther and farther away from your initial concept. And you have to be thankful for that.

My sin as a painter is that I just want to paint anything I want to paint - and repaint.

I haven't the slightest idea what art is, but to be a painter is something of which you have to prove.

Discipline is not a restriction but an aid to freedom.

My subject matter was a genuine sort of experience that came out of my life, particularly the American world in which I was privileged to be . . . . I would really think of the bakery counters, of the way the counter was lit, where the pies were placed, but I wanted just a piece of the experience. From when I worked in restaurants . . . [it was] always poetic to me.

If we don't have a sense of humor, we lack a sense of perspective