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

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.

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.

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.

Soul bonds can't be broken. They only bend for a while . . .

When emerging from humble beginnings, those around you tend to underestimate your authenticity because they knew you before you were 'somebody'.

Just ask how I'm feeling, I want to say. Just ask and I may tell you.But no one does.

Always changing genres, making very different films is a good idea. It's a way of making yourself feel vulnerable again, getting back to that innocence. As is working within a circumspect budget.

Life does not always gives us the choices that we want

I have a whole slew of doctors. I can count eight in my phone right now - eight different doctors, all for different parts of my body. I have specialists.

Moderation consists in being moved as angels are moved.

When the going gets tough, the tough eat ribs.

Hugo?’ ‘Millicent?’ ‘Is that you?’ ‘Yes. Is that you?’ ‘Yes.’ Anything in the nature of misunderstanding was cleared away. It was both of them.

Lady luck is trying his best for Liverpool