I Never Wish For Critics.

Generally, I Am Opposed To Painting Which Is Concerned With Conceptions Of Simplicity. Everything Looks Busy To Me.

One Wants One's Work To Be The World, But Of Course It's Never The World. The Work Is In The World; It Never Contains The Whole Thing.

I Would Like To Have Insights Into Things Like Government, All Those Big Ideas That You Brought Up That I Simply Don't Have Ideas About. I Would Like To Be Able To Since So Many People Discuss Them, But I Don't Want To Work At Them. I Don't Think My Ambition Is That Strong In That Direction.

In My Early Work, I Tried To Hide My Personality, My Psychological State, My Emotions. This Was Partly Due To My Feelings About Myself And Partly Due To My Feelings About Painting At The Time. I Sort Of Stuck To My Guns For A While But Eventually It Seemed Like A Losing Battle. Finally One Must Simply Drop The Reserve.

One Night I Dreamed That I Painted A Large American Flag, And The Next Morning I Got Up And I Went Out And Bought The Materials To Begin It.