“We want to decipher skies and paintings, go behind these starry backgrounds or these painted canvases and, like kids trying to find a gap in a fence, try to look through the cracks in the world.”
“Rembrandt painted portraits, The Karate Kid painted fences, and I paint my toenails. But I’m not a snob, I still consider those other two guys to be artists. ”
“Open skies painted above painted doorways and painted birds skimming across bricks trying to fly away. Little bird, what are you thinking? You come from a can.”
“Painting relates to both art and life. Neither can be made. I try to act in that gap between the two.- 1959, from a catalogue”
“You could appreciate the beauty of the world by trying to paint it.”
“With a starry brush, paint the dusk Venetian blue”