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. An artist is someone who makes art too. He did not invent it. How it started — "to hell with it." It is obvious that it has no progress. The idea of space is given him to change if he can. The subject matter in the abstract is space. He fills it with an attitude. The attitude never comes from himself alone.

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

Art never seems to make me peaceful or pure.

I don't paint to live, I live to paint.

Flesh was the reason why oil painting was invented

Even abstract shapes must have a likeness

Art should not have to be a certain way.