The only thing worth doing is what's never been done before..

I've always read, I've always admired writers and was lucky really to meet some extraordinary ones and become friends. Certain times you just like pe….

This is a little off subject, but I'm interested in those cases where someone is barking up the wrong tree, or misapplying their talent..

What most paintings do is give you a path for your eye to move around. The painting actually tells your eye, go here, now go here, now go here, go he….

People are still making paintings. People are still enjoying paintings, looking at paintings. Paintings still have something to tell us. There's a wa….

I do work hard at trying to find the right expression for something, which might be like finding the right image - choosing not only the right words ….

It's a mistake to ask a work of art to be all things to all people..

There was a review by Fairfield Porter from the 1950s about Mark Rothko, one of the more hallowed names in American art. Porter says something like, ….

Being in love is dangerous because you talk yourself into thinking you've never had it so good..

My focus was always toward imagery of some sort..

I feel that the only thing that really matters in art and life is to go against the tidal wave of literalism and literal-mindedness-to insist on and ….

Ever since I started painting, I have tried to get the fluidity and surprise of image connection, the simultaneity of film montage, into painting..

Fairfield Porter who has been my model for art writing all along, said that if the most interesting thing about a work of art is its content, it's pr….

Artists talk about art in sort of straightforward terms, more like the way you talk about plumbing fixtures. Does it function well? Does it bring the….

I did all the stuff that people do - film, performance, photography, pictures and words, words and pictures. In retrospect, I was trying to find some….

There are so many different ways to talk and think about art. We just spoke about when attitude becomes form. But when I was a kid, I had these two a….

If you go to a concert, you will notice, is it loud? Is the music fast? Is it predominately strings or brass? There are things we can all register, w….

Spend a day talking only in rhyme..

People tend to remember and mentally classify work according to how it looks, sometimes oblivious to the underlying intent..

Truth is, I didn't know what the hell I was doing when I got out of Cal Arts. I think I wasted a lot of time not being bold enough, or still engaged ….

Art is something someone made. It's a product of human endeavor. As such, it's not that different from having a conversation with someone. The painte….