It’s almost just a difference of mood as to whether I would describe myself one way or the other. I think I share that experience with most people..

It's simple, you just take something and do something to it, and then do something else to it. Keep doing this, and pretty soon you've got something..

Generally, I am opposed to painting which is concerned with conceptions of simplicity. Everything looks busy to me..

I have meant what I have done. Or I have often meant what I have done. Or I have sometimes meant what I have done. Or I have tried to mean what I was….

I think a painting should include more experience than simply intended statement..

I decided that if my work contained what I could identify as a likeness to other work, I would remove it..

Cubism is an anatomical chart of a way of seeing external objects. But I want to confuse the meaning of the act of looking..

To be an artist you have to give up everything, including the desire to be a good artist..

I assumed that everything would lead to complete failure, but I decided that didn't matter – that would be my life..

Take an object. Do something to it. Do something else to it..

I often find that having an idea in my head prevents me from doing something else. Working is therefore a way of getting rid of an idea..

That’s what painting does; it organizes vision in a certain way or suggests that certain things be paid attention to and certain other things not be ….

I don't want my work to be an exposure of my feelings..

I tend to like things that already exist..

To me, self-description is a calamity..

As one gets older one sees many more paths that could be taken. Artists sense within their own work that kind of swelling of possibilities, which may….

A picture ought to be looked at the same way you look at a radiator..

One likes to think that one anticipates changes in the spaces we inhabit, and our ideas about space..

I would like to have insights into things like government, all those big ideas that you brought up that I simply don't have ideas about. I would like….

I'm not sure what 'coming out right' means. It often means that what you do holds a kind of energy that you wouldn't just put there, that comes about….

In my early work, I tried to hide my personality, my psychological state, my emotions. This was partly due to my feelings about myself and partly due….