It is impossible to have progress without conscience

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

You begin with the possibilities of the material.

I don't really trust ideas - especially good ones... Rather, I put my trust in the materials that confront me, because they put me in touch with the unknown.

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 that I was interested in, indulging in, was gone.

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 has nothing to do with Art.

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

An empty canvas is full.

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

I don't think of myself as making art. I do what I do because I want to, because painting is the best way I've found to get along with myself.

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 artist loses that terror, he's through.

Oh! Do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.

Ain’t nothing worse to a mama than losing her baby—

Galleries are frightening places, places of evaluation, of judgement.

The Mum has the temper of a demon with a diaper rash. (Shamus)

I think that there were only two people in my high school that were comfortable there, and I think they are both pumping gas now.

If you create the game, then you create the rules.

Once we allow ourselves to be disobedient to the test of an accountant's profit, we have begun to change our civilization.

It's a pity that the tennis is really going down the drain. Every year it's getting worse and worse and worse. There has to be a radical change, and I hope it will be really soon.

If you're really good, you should express yourself...a lot.

I still love pop music, I still have a huge pop music collection, and I like that juxtaposition of styles.