Sometimes people only see horrible, terrible things in my paintings.
To worship the product and ignore its development leads to dilettantism and reaction.
Colors must fit together as pieces in a puzzle or cogs in a wheel.
I look at my pictures, and I think, 'Well, how did I do that?'
When I finish a painting, it usually looks as surprising to me as to anyone else.
My language is what I use, and if I lost that, I wouldn't be able to say anything.
Research universities need excellent means to communicate and express their results to regular people.
My paintings do not have a center, but depend on the same amount of interest throughout.
Could we teach taste or genius by rules, they would be no longer taste and genius.
Since we have to speak well of the dead, let's knock them while they're alive.
If I could find anything blacker than black, I'd use it.
Art happens all the time, everywhere. All we have to do is to keep our minds open.
I try very hard to handle things equally: ideas, materials, and images.
I think an ashtray is the most fantastically real thing.
I used to believe I was going to live forever. And then you suddenly become aware that you're not.
Always live in the ugliest house on the street - then you don't have to look at it.
I haven't stopped painting or drawing - I've just added another medium.
I generally only paint people I know, I'm not a flatterer really.
I avoid the public because the English public is too aggressive these days for me.
Ultimately, I'm about liberty and I think you have to defend it.
I don't think I talk to anybody the same way I talk to Moby.
