So that ideas of sort of relaxed symmetry have been something for years that I have been concerned with because I think that symmetry is a neutral shape as opposed to a form of design.

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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...

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...

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...

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...

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 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.

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...

I don't mess around with my subconscious.

I don't mess around with my subconscious.

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 got so I was really just sick of sculpture.

I got so I was really just sick of sculpture.

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...

An empty canvas is full.

An empty canvas is full.

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 I think a painting has such a limited life anyway.

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

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

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

You begin with the possibilities of the material.

You begin with the possibilities of the material.

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.

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...

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...

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

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