"Pollock.. ..left us [c. 1958] at the point where we must be preoccupied with and even dazzled by the space and object…"

"Around late 1961 to 1962, right around there, somewhat unevenly and sort of spottily, I began to do pieces that were …"

"Well, you know, a lot of work nowadays [c. 1991] tends to be illustrative of theory already written, and some of it t…"

"Most humans, it seems, still put up fences around their acts and thoughts – even when these are piles of shit – for t…"

"It's not what artists touch that counts most. It's what they don't touch."

"You can't teach colour from Cézanne, you can only teach it from something like this bubble-gum wrapper."

"The line between art and life should be kept as fluid, and perhaps indistinct, as possible."

"A walk down 14th street is more amazing than any masterpiece of art."

"The problem with artlike art, or even doses of artlike art that still linger in lifelike art, is that it overemphasiz…"

"All the thought which in the course of my studies I have been able to give to the subject has led me to conclude that…"