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

I read somewhere that Rubens said students should not draw from life, but draw from all the great classic casts. Then you really get the measure of them, you really know what to do. And then, put in your own dimples. Isn't that marvelous!

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.

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

I have to change to stay the same.

Art never seems to make me peaceful or pure.

Im not someone whos ever said anything definitive about his work. In my life also I have very little fixed form. I can change overnight.