“Art is either a complaint or appeasement.”

“Old art offers just as good a criticism of new art as new art offers of old.”

“Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it.”

“I assumed that everything would lead to complete failure, but I decided that didn't matter – that would be my life. ”

“I think that one wants from a painting a sense of life. The final suggestion, the final statement, has to be not a deliberate statement but a helpless statement. It has to be what you can't avoid saying.”

“I don't want my work to be an exposure of my feelings.”

“My experience with life is that it's very fragmented. In one place certain kinds of thing occur, and in another place a different kind of thing occurs. I would like my work to have some vivid indication of those differences. I guess, in painting, it would amount to different kinds of space being represented in it.”