I don't mess around with my subconscious.

People ask me, 'Don't you ever run out of ideas?' In the first place I don't use ideas. Every time I have an idea it's too limiting, and usually turn….

I don't think of myself as making art. I do what I do because I want to, because painting is the best way I've found to get along with myself..

I got so I was really just sick of sculpture..

And all of this, all these physical aspects of painting at that time excited me very much. You could do a picture in just black and white. I mean all….

There's a moment for everyone when you fall into your own shadow and the fact is that it's your shadow and you're forced to live in it. And this is n….

I wouldn't use the same color in a picture in more than one place.

I don't think there's anything really wrong with influence because I think that one can use another man's art as material either literally or just im….

I'm quite taken aback when I get something that appears to be technically a good photograph, because it's not necessarily my intention..

A newspaper that you're not reading can be used for anything; and the same people didn't think it was immoral to wrap their garbage in newspaper..

So that ideas of sort of relaxed symmetry have been something for years that I have been concerned with because I think that symmetry is a neutral sh….

It is impossible to have progress without conscience.

But I was in awe of the painters; I mean I was new in New York, and I thought the painting that was going on here was just unbelievable.

If you don't have trouble paying the rent, you have trouble doing something else; one needs just a certain amount of trouble..

I was much happier when I had less responsibility... when my only responsibility was to my work and to myself..

You can't make either life or art, you have to work in the hole in between, which is undefined. That's what makes the adventure of painting..

Work is my joy... Work is my therapy, I don't know anybody who loves work as much as I do..

Art is a means to function thoroughly and passionately in a world that has a lot more to it than paint..

My art is about paying attention - about the extremely dangerous possibility that you might be art..

My concern is never art, but always what art can be used for..

It's when you've found out how to do certain things, that it's time to stop doing them, because what's missing is that you're not including the risk..