Basically Painting Is Total Idiocy.

Well, I Like Way Downtown Near The Battery. I Lived Down There At This Time And For, I Guess, The Following Well, This Is Where I Moved To Uptown And I've Been Here For Four Years And This Is 1965.

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.

I Don't Really Trust Ideas - Especially Good Ones... Rather, I Put My Trust In The Materials That Confront Me, Because They Put Me In Touch With The Unknown.

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.

It Is Impossible To Have Progress Without Conscience