Photography isolates the world via an aperture and gives the photographer the means to see differently, to achieve a spontaneous vision that is direc….

I believe people have to be open to what's happening when they're alive..

I don't labor over my drawings. I want to get freedom in the line..

My drawings have to be quick. If they don't happen in 20 minutes or a half hour, then they're no good..

All my paintings are usually done in drawing form, very small. I make notations in drawings first, and then I make a collage for color. But drawing i….

I did not want windows, only skylights. I chose my painting wall as it has the best morning light..

Geometry is moribund. I want a lilt and joy to art..

Everything that I saw became something to be made, and it had to be exactly as it was, with nothing added. It was a new freedom: there was no longer ….

The most pleasurable thing in the world, for me, is to see something and then translate how I see it..

The form of my painting is the content. My work is made of single or multiple panels: rectangle, curved, or square. I am less interested in marks on ….

I felt that everything is beautiful, but that which man tries intentionally to make beautiful; that the work of an ordinary bricklayer is more valid ….

I'm not interested in edges. I'm interested in the mass and color, the black and white. The edges happen because the forms get as quiet as they can b….

Shape and color are my two strong things. And by doing this, drawing plants has always led me into my paintings and my sculptures..

Making art has first of all to do with honesty. My first lesson was to see objectively, to erase all meaning of the thing seen. Then only could the r….

I have worked to free shape from its ground, and then to work the shape so that it has a definite relationship to the space around it; so that it has….

All my work begins with drawings. I don’t labor over my drawings. I want to get freedom in the line. I like to be able to get swift curves in the pla….

In drawing, I don't erase. I believe the original gesture has to be the best..

The paintings to me are always canvas, sculpture has always been metal, though I have made sculpture in wood also..

My forms are geometric, but they don't interact in a geometric sense. They're just forms that exist everywhere, even if you don't see them..

I'm not interested in the texture of a rock, but in its shadow..

I noticed that the large windows between the paintings [in the Musee d'Art Moderne] interested me more than the art exhibited. From then on, painting….