I'm not interested in 'abstracting' or taking things out or reducing painting to design, form, line, and color. I paint this way because I can keep putting more things in it - drama, anger, pain, love, a figure, a horse, my ideas about space. Through your eyes it again becomes an emotion or idea.

I make pictures and someone comes in and calls it art.

The problem with property is that it takes so much of your time.

Not even for a million dollars would I paint a tree.

Style is a fraud. I always felt the Greeks were hiding behind their columns.

Whatever an artist's personal feelings are, as soon as an artist fills a certain area on the canvas or circumscribes it, he becomes historical. He acts from or upon other artists.

The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all your time.