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

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 ….

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….

The negative is just as important as the positive..

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

I think that if you can turn off the mind and look only with the eyes, ultimately everything becomes abstract..

Shading is more like copying. And certainly I do copy, but I'm making drawings, and I'm not trying to make them with the shading..

A lot of young painters love to incorporate celebrity. One idea of being a painter is to use what's happening at the time. Velázquez was painting of ….

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

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 ….

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 ….

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 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 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….

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

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

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..

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