“The older you get, the stronger the wind gets — and it's always in your face.”

“Painting is stronger than me, it makes me do it's bidding.”

“I am always doing things I can't do, that's how I get to do them.”

“Go and do the things you can't. That is how you get to do them.”

“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.”

“We don't grow older we grow riper.”

“There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.”