I have to change to stay the same.

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.

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

I might work on a painting for a month, but it has too look like I painted it in a minute.

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

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

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.