The only real influence I've ever had is myself.
Focusing isn't just an optical activity, it is also a mental one.
We don't make mistakes, just happy little accidents.
Believe that you can do it cause you can do it.
I didn't care where my works were published.
You see, I was never stage-struck the way most girls were.
If I hadn't started painting, I would have raised chickens.
You get whatever accomplishment you are willing to declare.
One can't paint New York as it is, but rather as it is felt.
It's not enough to be nice in life. You've got to have nerve.
Subjective artists are one-eyed, but objective artists are blind.
Often pagans, with their eyes wide open, do not see very clearly.
The question of sex will take care of itself.
You can't smear acrylics, you know, it dries too fast.
Painters must speak through paint, not through words.
Through a painting we can see the whole world.
I think that words are often extraneous to what I do.
Cutting into color reminds me of the sculptor's direct carving.
I'm really interested in the nondefinitive element of abstraction.
Bums are the well-to-do of this day. They didn't have as far to fall.
There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the labor of thinking.
