"I see my work, as being determined by the fact that I was born in 1936."

"The painting never changes once I've started to paint it. I work things out before-hand in the sketches."

"If we are the best, it is only fair that they imitate us."

"The aim of art is to create space - space that is not compromised by decoration or illustration, space within which t…"

"Only what can be seen there [in the painting] is there.. .What you see is what you see."

"My painting is based on the fact that only what can be seen there is there. It really is an object. Any painting is a…"

"We believe that we can find the end, and that a painting can be finished. The Abstract Expressionists always felt the…"

"If you don't know what Ad Reinhardt's) paintings are about, you don't know what painting is about."

"I always get into arguments, with people who want to retain the old values in painting — the humanistic values that t…"

"I do think that a good pictorial idea is worth more than a lot of manual dexterity."