Curiosity is the main energy...

Painting relates to both art and life. Neither can be made - I try to act in the gap.

You have to have time to be sorry for yourself to be a good Abstract Expressionist.

I feel strong in my belief, based on my widely traveled collaborations, that a one-to-one contact through art contains potent peaceful powers, and is the most non-elitist way to share information, hopefully seducing us into creating mutual understandings for the benefit of all.

My art is about paying attention – about the extremely dangerous possibility that you might be art,

There was a whole language that I could never make function for myself; it revolved around words like 'tortured', 'struggle'. 'pain''.. ..I could never see these qualities in paint - I could see them in life and art that illustrates life. But I could not see such conflicts in the materials and I knew that it had to be in the attitude of the painter.

(Art is) a means to function thoroughly and passionately in a world that has a lot more to it than paint.

You can't make either life or art, you have to work in the hole in between, which is undefined. That's what makes the adventure of painting.

My concern is never art, but always what art can be used for.