 And I think that even today, New York still has more of this unexpected quality around every corner than any place else. It's something quite extraordinary. |
| The artist's job is to be a witness to his time in history. |
| I'm not so facile that I can accomplish or find out what I want to know or explore enough of the possibilities and a way of making a painting, say, in just one painting or two paintings. |
| Oracle was I had started it I guess two and a half years ago, maybe even longer than that, closer to three. |
| 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. |
| I don't mess around with my subconscious. |
| I think a painting is more like the real world if it's made out the real world. |
| But I was in awe of the painters; I mean I was new in New York, and I thought the painting that was going on here was just unbelievable. |
| I always have a good reason for taking something out but I never have one for putting something in. And I don't want to, because that means that the picture is being painted predigested. |
| And I think a painting has such a limited life anyway. |
