Art Is A Means To Function Thoroughly

People Ask Me, 'don't You Ever Run Out Of Ideas?' In The First Place I Don't Use Ideas. Every Time I Have An Idea It's Too Limiting, And Usually Turns Out To Be A Disappointment. But I Haven't Run Out Of Curiosity.

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.

Art Is A Means To Function Thoroughly And Passionately In A World That Has A Lot More To It Than Paint.

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 Want My Paintings To Look Like What's Going On Outside My Window Rather Than What's Inside My Studio.