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

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..

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….

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

I like photographs of anything uninteresting. Maybe just two doors on a wall... The point is to be uninteresting..

I think that in the last twenty years or so, there's been a new kind of honesty in painting where painters have been very proud of paint and have let….

There was something about the self-confession and self-confusion of Abstract expressionism - as though the man and the work were the same - that pers….

I've not been cursed with talent, which could be a great inhibitor..

A pair of socks is no less suitable to make a painting with than wood, nails, turpentine, oil and fabric..

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..

You have to have the time to feel sorry for yourself in order to be a good abstract expressionist..

Understanding is a form of blindness. Good art, I think, can never be understood..

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….

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..

There is no reason not to consider the world as one gigantic painting..

This was my first encounter with art as art (he saw 'Pinky' painted by Sir Thomas Lawrence and 'The Blue Boy" painted by Thomas Gainborough).. ..some….

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….

You begin with the possibilities of the material..

My fascination with images open 24 hrs. is based on the complex interlocking if disparate facts heated pool that have no respect for grammar. The for….

Success is a worn down pencil..

A canvas is never empty..