Most artists try to break your heart, or they accidentally break their own hearts.But I find the quietness in the ordinary much more satisfying..

An empty canvas is full only if you want it to be full..

And I think that even today, New York still has more of this unexpected quality around every corner than any place else. It's something quite extraor….

I think a painting is more like the real world if it's made out the real world..

It's so easy to be undisciplined. And to be disciplined is so against my character, my general nature anyway, that I have to strain a little bit to k….

Basically painting is total idiocy..

Sometimes I have taken photographs and just felt so excited that I could barely hold the camera steady, and the photo was boring..

An empty canvas is full..

I used to think of that line in Allen Ginsberg's 'Howl', about the 'sad cup of coffee'.. ..I have had cold coffee and hot coffee and lousy coffee, Bu….

I don't think he (Joseph Albers, fh) ever realized that it was his discipline that I came for. Besides, my response to what I learned from him was ju….

Painting relates to both art and life. Neither can be made - I try to act in the gap..

I don't like masterpieces having one-night stands in collectors' homes between auctions..

Having to be different is the same trap as having to be the same..

Well, I like way downtown near the Battery. I lived down there at this time and for, I guess, the following well, this is where I moved to uptown and….

For me there is no difference between art and life..

You wait until life is in the frame, then you have the permission to click. I like the adventure of waiting until the whole frame is full..

I want my paintings to look like what's going on outside my window rather than what's inside my studio..

I don't want a picture to look like something it isn't. I want it to look like something it is..

One has to believe in what one is doing, one has to commit oneself inwardly, in order to do painting. Once obsessed, one ultimately carries it to the….

By the time you establish your priorities, there really isn't any fun or need to interest yourself in what you're doing. And this I find disastrous..

I don't think any one person, whether artist or not, has been given permission by anyone to put the responsibility of the way things are on anyone el….