I don't paint to live, I live to paint.
I'd like to get all the colors in the world into one painting
Once, after finishing a picture, I thought I would stop for awhile, take a trip, do things-the next time I thought of this, I found five years had gone by.
I have to change to stay the same.
Even an abstract form has to have a likeness.
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.