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

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

“Curiosity is the main energy...”

“There was a whole language that I could never make function for myself in relationship to painting and that was attitudes like tortured, struggle, pain.”

“You begin with the possibilities of the material.”

“An empty canvas is full.”

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

“So that ideas of sort of relaxed symmetry have been something for years that I have been concerned with because I think that symmetry is a neutral shape as opposed to a form of design.”

“You have to have time to be sorry for yourself to be a good Abstract Expressionist.”

“Painting relates to both art and life. Neither can be made - I try to act in the gap.”