"I went into my own black-out period [1942-45] which lasted two or three years where the canvases would simply build u…"

"Without getting complicated let me recapitulate my art training in the following way: the Academy first, the break wi…"

"All my work keeps going like a pendulum; it seems to swing back to something I was involved with earlier, or it moves…"

"With Jackson there was quiet solitude. Just to sit and look at the landscape. An inner quietness. After dinner, to si…"

"One could go on forever as to whether the paint should be thick or thin, whether to paint the woman or the square, ha…"

"I think my painting is so autobiographical if anyone can take the trouble to read it."

"I think I stayed in the Mural division [ WPA, early 1940's] until it became A War Service Project and then I was rele…"

"That's right, and then I worked with him [ Hans Hofmann ] a little more than that. When I had time I could come in an…"

"I was quite active politically just previous to this, and I'm leading into this time when I was on WPA and there was …"

"My recollection of meeting him [ Jackson Pollock ] outside of this one incident, was at a show that John Graham did a…"