The texture of experience is prior to everything else..

I think I'm painting a picture of two women but it may turn out to be a landscape..

I don't paint to live, I live to paint..

I make pictures and someone comes in and calls it art..

Style is a fraud. I always felt the Greeks were hiding behind their columns..

I'm not interested in 'abstracting' or taking things out or reducing painting to design, form, line, and color. I paint this way because I can keep p….

The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all your time..

Art never seems to make me peaceful or pure. I always seem to be wrapped in the melodrama of vulgarity. I do not think... of art as a situation of co….

What you do when you paint, you take a brush full of paint, get paint on the picture, and you have faith..

The idea of space is given to the artist to change if he can. The subject matter in the abstract is space..

Content is a glimpse..

I paint the way I do because I can keep on putting more and more things in - like drama, pain, anger, love, a figure, a horse, my ideas of space. It ….

The drawings that interest me most are made with closed eyes. With eyes closed, I feel my hand slide down on the paper. I have an image in mind, but ….

Every so often, a painter has to destroy painting. Cezanne did it, Picasso did it with Cubism. Then Pollock did it. He busted our idea of a picture a….

Whatever an artist's personal feelings are, as soon as an artist fills a certain area on the canvas or circumscribes it, he becomes historical. He ac….

I have to change to stay the same..

You have to keep on the very edge of something, all the time, or the picture dies..

The 'Women' had to do with the female painted through all ages, all those idols, and maybe I was stuck to a certain extent; I couldn't go on. It did ….

I'd like to get all the colors in the world into one painting.

Not even for a million dollars would I paint a tree..

The attitude that nature is chaotic and that the artist puts order into it is a very absurd point of view, I think. All that we can hope for is to pu….