And also the new excitement and variety of ways that the abstract expressionists were applying paint. You could put it on as though it were colored air and it would be painting.

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I think a painting is more like the real world if it's made out the...

I think a painting is more like the real world if it's made out the...

I don't mess around with my subconscious.

I don't mess around with my subconscious.

I wouldn't use the same color in a picture in more than one place.

I wouldn't use the same color in a picture in more than one place.

You begin with the possibilities of the material.

You begin with the possibilities of the material.

There was a whole language that I could never make function for myself in relationship...

There was a whole language that I could never make function for myself in relationship...

I'm sure we don't read old paintings the way they were intended.

I'm sure we don't read old paintings the way they were intended.

Very quickly a painting is turned into a facsimile of itself when one becomes so...

Very quickly a painting is turned into a facsimile of itself when one becomes so...

I did a twenty foot print and John Cage is involved in that because he...

I did a twenty foot print and John Cage is involved in that because he...

And all of this, all these physical aspects of painting at that time excited me...

And all of this, all these physical aspects of painting at that time excited me...

And I think that even today, New York still has more of this unexpected quality...

And I think that even today, New York still has more of this unexpected quality...

But I was in awe of the painters; I mean I was new in New...

But I was in awe of the painters; I mean I was new in New...

I always have a good reason for taking something out but I never have one...

I always have a good reason for taking something out but I never have one...

I'm not so facile that I can accomplish or find out what I want to...

I'm not so facile that I can accomplish or find out what I want to...

But I found a lot of artists at the Cedar Bar were difficult for me...

But I found a lot of artists at the Cedar Bar were difficult for me...

And I think a painting has such a limited life anyway.

And I think a painting has such a limited life anyway.

A newspaper that you're not reading can be used for anything; and the same people...

A newspaper that you're not reading can be used for anything; and the same people...

An empty canvas is full.

An empty canvas is full.

If you don't have trouble paying the rent, you have trouble doing something else; one...

If you don't have trouble paying the rent, you have trouble doing something else; one...

I don't think any one person, whether artist or not, has been given permission by...

I don't think any one person, whether artist or not, has been given permission by...

Oracle was I had started it I guess two and a half years ago, maybe...

Oracle was I had started it I guess two and a half years ago, maybe...