“The attitude that nature is chaotic and that the artist puts order into it is a very absurd point of view, I think. All that we can hope for is to put some order into ourselves”

“The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all your time.”

“Every so often, a painter has to destroy painting. Cezanne did it, Picasso did it with Cubism. Then Pollock did it. He busted our idea of a picture all to hell. Then there could be new paintings again.”

“In art one idea is as good as another.”

“A painting to me is primarily a verb, not a noun, an event first and only secondarily an image.”

“The world is not to be put in order. The world is order. It is for us to put ourselves in unison with this order.”

“In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice.”