An Empty Canvas Is Full.

And Also The New Excitement And Variety Of Ways That The Abstract Expressionists Were Applying Paint. You Could Put It On As Though It Were Colored Air And It Would Be Painting.

For The First Time, I Wasn't Embarrassed By The Look Of Beauty, Of Elegance, Because When You See Someone Who Has Only One Rag As Their Property, But It Happens To Be Beautiful And Pink And Silk, Beauty Doesn't Have To Be Separated... I Have Always Said That You Shouldn't Have Biases, You Shouldn't Have Prejudices. But Before That [before His Trip To India, Circa 1975] I'd Never Been Able To Use Purple, Because It Was Too Beautiful.

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

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.

Understanding Is A Form Of Blindness. Good Art, I Think, Can Never Be Understood.