I Had Been Working Purely Abstractly For

I Think A Painting Is More Like The Real World If It's Made Out The Real World.

Very Quickly A Painting Is Turned Into A Facsimile Of Itself When One Becomes So Familiar With With It That One Recognizes It Without Looking At It.

I Don't Think He (joseph Albers, Fh) Ever Realized That It Was His Discipline That I Came For. Besides, My Response To What I Learned From Him Was Just The Opposite Of What He Intended.. ..i Was Very Hesitant About Arbitrarily Designing Forms And Selecting Colors That Would Achieve Some Predetermined Result, Because I Didn't Have Any Ideas To Support That Sort Of Thing - I Didn't Want Color To Serve Me, In Other Words.

My Art Is About Paying Attention - About The Extremely Dangerous Possibility That You Might Be Art.

Having To Be Different Is The Same Trap As Having To Be The Same.