A Canvas Is Never Empty.

Painting Is Always Strongest When In Spite Of Composition, Color, Etc., It Appears As A Fact, Or An Inevitability, As Opposed To A Souvenir Or Arrangement.

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.

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.

The Only Thing That I Could Get With Chance, And I Never Was Able To Use It, Was That I Would End Up With Something Quite Geometric Or The Spirit That I Was Interested In, Indulging In, Was Gone.

I Am Sick Of Talking About What And Why I Am Doing. I Have Always Believed That The Work Is The Word. Action Is Seen Less Clearly Through Reason. There Are No Shortcuts To Directness.