A Canvas Is Never Empty.

Screwing Things Up Is A Virtue. Being Correct Is Never The Point. I Have An Almost Fanatically Correct Assistant, And By The Time She Re-spells My Words And Corrects My Punctuation, I Can't Read What I Wrote. Being Right Can Stop All The Momentum Of A Very Interesting Idea.

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.

I Always Have A Good Reason For Taking Something Out But I Never Have One For Putting Something In. And I Don't Want To, Because That Means That The Picture Is Being Painted Predigested.

If You Don't Have Trouble Paying The Rent, You Have Trouble Doing Something Else; One Needs Just A Certain Amount Of Trouble.

I Don't Think There's Anything Really Wrong With Influence Because I Think That One Can Use Another Man's Art As Material Either Literally Or Just Implying That They're Doing That, Without It Representing A Lack Of A Point Of View.