I don’t abstract from anything.…I am involved with real space, the room itself, real light, and real surface.

- Robert Ryman

The real purpose of painting is to give pleasure.

- Robert Ryman

There is never a question of what to paint but only how to paint.

- Robert Ryman

What painting is, is exactly what people see.

- Robert Ryman

My approach tends to be from experiments. I need the challenge. If I know how to do something well, there's no need to do it all the time because it …

- Robert Ryman