1. “Very quickly a painting is turned into a facsimile of itself when one becomes so familiar with with it one recognizes it without looking at it.”
2. “It is impossible to have progress without conscience.”
3. “I’ve not been cursed with talent, which could be a great inhibitor.”
4. “I think a painting is more like the real world if it’s made out the real world.”
5. “My concern is never art, but always what art can be used for.”
6. “I feel as though the world is a friendly boy walking along in the sun.”
7. “Success is a worn down pencil.”
8. “An empty canvas is full.”
9. “Being right can stop all the momentum of a very interesting idea.”
10. “Having to be different is the same trap as having to be the same.”
11. “For me there is no difference between art and life.”
12. “Art is a means to function thoroughly and passionately in a world that has a lot more to it than paint.”
13. “There is no reason not to consider the world a one gigantic painting.”
14. “The artist’s job is to witness to his time in history.”
15. “Every time I’ve moved, my work has changed radically.”
16. “I always have searched for a point of view that a participant could change.”
17. “A pair of socks is no less suitable to make a painting with than wood, nails, turpentine, oil an fabric.”
18. “Curiosity is the main energy.”
19. “You begin with the possibilities of the material.”
20. “You wait until life is in the frame, then you have the permission to click. I like the adventure of waiting until the whole frame is full.”
21. “Basically painting is total idiocy.”
22. “An empty canvas is full only if you want it to be full.”
23. “The working process is ideally freeing my mind.”
24. “You have to have the time to feel sorry for yourself in order to be a good abstract expressionist.”
25. “Photography is the most direct communication in non-violent contacts.”
26. “Value the process.”
27. “If you don’t have trouble paying the rent, you have trouble doing something else; one needs just a certain amount of trouble.”
28. “I feel as though the world is a friendly boy walking along in the sun.”
29. “I think a painting is more like the real world if it’s made out the real world.”
30. “Photography has always been a major part of my vision: my excuse for meddling with what the world looks like.”
