Pollock was well known, certainly, but for all the wrong reasons. He was known as much for being wild and unconventional in his working methods as for being a great artist.

With artists of my own generation there was at first no group identity - and never a clique.

I think of painting without subject matter as music without words.

Context begins with other artists - seniors and mentors.

As time goes on, I realize more and more that, beginning in the early 30's, David Smith began setting the precedent for what was to come later for many of us.

For me context is the key - from that comes the understanding of everything.

Usually I throw away what I don't get right the first time.

I've also been willing to share any help that I could give to any other artist.

I met David Smith through my former wife, Cornelia, who'd studied with him.

In the '50s Morris Louis and I were not known, David Smith and Helen Frankenthaler were not much known.

We are born to serve, to find the power of love, and to get what we deserve.

I'm crazy and going crazier, and I don't know how to stop it.I don't know how to stop this hurrible darkness from eating me alive, and no one in the world is going to help me.

From the landscape: a sense of scale. From the dead: a sense of scale.

We all tend to make zealous judgement, and thereby close ourselves off from revelation.

I've never been to Ireland and I've always wanted to go.

Assume the best but hire paranoid people.

An ait a bhfuil do chroi is ann a thabharfas do chosa thu.(your feet will bring you to where your heart is.)

The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely.

Beneath this slab John Brown is stowed. He watched the ads, And not the road.

Kids learn by example. If I respect Mom, they're going to respect Mom.