Art should not have to be a certain way.

I think I'm painting a picture of two women but it may turn out to be a landscape.

Every so often, a painter has to destroy painting. Cezanne did it, Picasso did it with Cubism. Then Pollock did it. He busted our idea of a picture all to hell. Then there could be new paintings again.

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.

Spiritually I am wherever my spirit allows me to be, and that is not necessarily in the future... Art never seems to make me peaceful or pure.

You have to keep on the very edge of something, all the time, or the picture dies.

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