Well, I like way downtown near the Battery. I lived down there at this time and for, I guess, the following well, this is where I moved to uptown and I've been here for four years and this is 1965.

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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...

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...

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...

You begin with the possibilities of the material.

You begin with the possibilities of the material.

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

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

I don't mess around with my subconscious.

I don't mess around with my subconscious.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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.

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...

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 I think a painting has such a limited life anyway.

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

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...

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...