If I'm away from painting for a week, I get bored.
My favorite Twombly is 'Apollo and the Artist,' with the big 'Apollo' written across it.
The only real influence I've ever had was myself.
There is a sort of elation about sunlight on the upper part of a house.
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.
...how absurd human beings are and how magnificent.
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.
