“The more technique you have the less you have to worry about it. The more technique there is the less there is. ”

“An idea is a point of departure and no more. As soon as you elaborate it, it becomes transformed by thought”

“You have to have an idea of what you are going to do, but it should be a vague idea.”

“When you come right down to it all you have is yourself. The sun is a thousand rays in your belly. All the rest is nothing.”

“Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone”

“When art critics get together they talk about Form and Structure and Meaning. When artists get together they talk about where you can buy cheap turpentine.”

“Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not. ”