While my classmates were reading their textbooks, I drew in the margins..

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

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

Being right can stop all the momentum of a very interesting idea..

Screwing things up is a virtue. Being correct is never the point. I have an almost fanatically correct assistant, and by the time she re-spells my wo….

And also the new excitement and variety of ways that the abstract expressionists were applying paint. You could put it on as though it were colored a….

This telegram is a work of art if I say it is..

Every time I've moved, my work has changed radically..

This is a portrait of Iris Clert if I say so..

If I declare it to be so, then this is a portrait..

I never allowed myself the luxury of those brilliant, beautiful colors until I went to India and saw people walking around in them or dragging them i….

And I think a painting has such a limited life anyway.

The working process is ideally freeing my mind..

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

I usually work in a direction until I know how to do it, then I stop, At the time that I am bored or understand - I use those words interchangeably -….

Painting is always strongest when in spite of composition, color, etc., it appears as a fact, or an inevitability, as opposed to a souvenir or arrang….

There was a whole language that I could never make function for myself; it revolved around words like 'tortured', 'struggle'. 'pain'.. .I could never….

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

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….

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

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….