Curiosity Is The Main Energy.

Most Artists Try To Break Your Heart, Or They Accidentally Break Their Own Hearts.but I Find The Quietness In The Ordinary Much More Satisfying.

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

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.

This Was My First Encounter With Art As Art (he Saw 'pinky' Painted By Sir Thomas Lawrence And 'the Blue Boy" Painted By Thomas Gainborough).. ..somebody Actually Made Those Paintings.. ..(it) Was The First Time I Realized You Could Be An Artist.

And I Think That Even Today, New York Still Has More Of This Unexpected Quality Around Every Corner Than Any Place Else. It's Something Quite Extraordinary