Basically painting is total idiocy..

The only thing that I could get with chance, and I never was able to use it, was that I would end up with something quite geometric or the spirit tha….

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

I really feel sorry for people who think things like soap dishes or mirrors or Coke bottles are ugly, because they're surrounded by things like that ….

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….

It is neither Art for Art, nor Art against Art. I am for Art, but for Art that has nothing to do with Art. Art has everything to do with life, but it….

There was a whole language that I could never make function for myself in relationship to painting, and that was attitudes like tortured, struggle, p….

I always have searched for a point of view that a participant could change..

Even at this late date, I go into my studio, and I think 'Is this going to be it? Is it the end?' You see, nearly everything terrorizes me. When an a….

I feel strong in my belief, based on my widely traveled collaborations, that a one-to-one contact through art contains potent peaceful powers, and is….

Photography is the most direct communication in non-violent contacts..

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

I'm not so facile that I can accomplish or find out what I want to know or explore enough of the possibilities and a way of making a painting, say, i….

With me, it's much more a matter of accepting whatever happens, accepting all these elements from the outside and then trying to work with them in a ….

I'm sure we don't read old paintings the way they were intended.

An empty canvas is full..

I am sick of talking about What and Why I am doing. I have always believed that the WORK is the word. Action is seen less clearly through reason. The….

The artist's job is to be a witness to his time in history..

Very quickly a painting is turned into a facsimile of itself when one becomes so familiar with with it that one recognizes it without looking at it..

I prefer images that are less specific, so there is room for everyone's imagination..

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