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

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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...

Every time I've moved, my work has changed radically.

Every time I've moved, my work has changed radically.

I think maybe chance works better in a situation like music because music exists over...

I think maybe chance works better in a situation like music because music exists over...

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...

Pollock also... wanted one to be wrapped in the painting.

Pollock also... wanted one to be wrapped in the painting.

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...

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.

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 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 got so I was really just sick of sculpture.

I got so I was really just sick of sculpture.

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...

And also the new excitement and variety of ways that the abstract expressionists were applying...

And also the new excitement and variety of ways that the abstract expressionists were applying...

The only thing that I could get with chance, and I never was able to...

The only thing that I could get with chance, and I never was able to...

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 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...

So that ideas of sort of relaxed symmetry have been something for years that I...

So that ideas of sort of relaxed symmetry have been something for years that I...

The artist's job is to be a witness to his time in history.

The artist's job is to be a witness to his time in history.

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...

You begin with the possibilities of the material.

You begin with the possibilities of the material.

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...