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I wouldn't use the same color in a picture in more than one place.

Value the process.

Photography has always been a major part of my vision: my excuse for meddling with what the world looks like.

And I think a painting has such a limited life anyway.

Having to be different is the same trap as having to be the same.

Understanding is a form of blindness. Good art, I think, can never be understood.

Every time I've moved, my work has changed radically.

I don't mess around with my subconscious.

But I found a lot of artists at the Cedar Bar were difficult for me to talk to.

I feel as though the world is a friendly boy walking along in the sun.

I'm quite taken aback when I get something that appears to be technically a good photograph, because it's not necessarily my intention.

Success is a worn down pencil.

A newspaper that you're not reading can be used for anything; and the same people didn't think it was immoral to wrap their garbage in newspaper.

A canvas is never empty.

I prefer images that are less specific, so there is room for everyone's imagination.

By the time you establish your priorities, there really isn't any fun or need to interest yourself in what you're doing. And this I find disastrous.

A pair of stockings is no less suitable o make a painting of than wood,nails,turpentine,oil,and fabric.

Oracle was I had started it I guess two and a half years ago, maybe even longer than that, closer to three.

An empty canvas is full only if you want it to be full.

I don't like masterpieces having one-night stands in collectors' homes between auctions.

You begin with the possibilities of the material.

You have to have time to be sorry for yourself to be a good Abstract Expressionist.

I don't want a picture to look like something it isn't. I want it to look like something it is.

You wait until life is in the frame, then you have the permission to click. I like the adventure of waiting until the whole frame is full.

Most artists try to break your heart, or they accidentally break their own hearts.But I find the quietness in the ordinary much more satisfying.

Curiosity is the main energy...

I think a painting is more like the real world if it's made out the real world.

I like photographs of anything uninteresting. Maybe just two doors on a wall ... The point is to be uninteresting.

I always have searched for a point of view that a participant could change.

If I declare it to be so, then this is a portrait.

The artist's job is to be a witness to his time in history.

I refuse to be in this world by myself. I want an open commitment from the rest of the people.

Photography is the most direct communication in non-violent contacts.

An empty canvas is full.

I'm sure we don't read old paintings the way they were intended.

This telegram is a work of art if I say it is.

The working process is ideally freeing my mind.

If you're going to paint extremely, you need a big piece of canvas.

(Art is) a means to function thoroughly and passionately in a world that has a lot more to it than paint.

I don't think of myself as making art. I do what I do because I want to, because painting is the best way I've found to get along with myself.

Pollock also ... wanted one to be wrapped in the painting.

It's when you've found out how to do certain things, that it's time to stop doing them, because what's missing is that you're not including the risk.

It is impossible to have progress without conscience

If you don't have trouble paying the rent, you have trouble doing something else; one needs just a certain amount of trouble.

Sometimes I have taken photographs and just felt so excited that I could barely hold the camera steady, and the photo was boring.

I want my paintings to look like what's going on outside my window rather than what's inside my studio.

For me there is no difference between art and life.

Basically painting is total idiocy.

Being right can stop all the momentum of a very interesting idea.

This is a portrait of Iris Clert if I say so.

While my classmates were reading their textbooks, I drew in the margins.

You can't make either life or art, you have to work in the hole in between, which is undefined. That's what makes the adventure of painting.

There is no reason not to consider the world as one gigantic painting,

I got so I was really just sick of sculpture.

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

Very quickly a painting is turned into a facsimile of itself when one becomes so familiar with with it that one recognizes it without looking at it.

I was much happier when I had less responsibility ... when my only responsibility was to my work and to myself.

My concern is never art, but always what art can be used for.

Work is my joy ... Work is my therapy, I don't know anybody who loves work as much as I do.

But I was in awe of the painters; I mean I was new in New York, and I thought the painting that was going on here was just unbelievable.

I've not been cursed with talent, which could be a great inhibitor.