What I will no longer accept is the mediocre life of a modest little gentleman.
When I am in my painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing.
Technique is just a means of arriving at a statement.
We were all novices. We really were. We didn't know a goddamn thing about doing a show.
The real character of a man is found out by his amusements.
It is but a poor eloquence which only shows that the orator can talk.
Who would have thought that the telephone would bring back drawing?
I'm not going to stop painting just to take orders.
The moment I got a very big studio, everything took off.
Well, in Bradford I could say I was brought up in Bradford and Hollywood.
You can't name the inventor of the camera. The 19th-century invention was chemical: the fixative.
Pollock looks unusual and radical even now.
I always thought being an artist was a lazy job. I was wrong.
The vocabulary I use has to reflect the people I'm trying to communicate with.
I don't know how to organise thoughts. I don't know how to have thoughts.
I went to an audition for a Harry Belafonte Roaring Twenties special for choreographer Donald McKayle, but I failed.
I'm always working. If I'm not in my studio I become quite nervous.
I am primarily concerned with the condition of man.
Here we were, corrupting all those Russians toward communism.
It's not until the very last phase that you know how good the works are going to be.
I love the passion you go through while you're creating.
