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.

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.

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

What you do when you paint, you take a brush full of paint, get paint on the picture, and you have faith.

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

The past does not influence me; I influence it.