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At first I had some idea that the absence of color made the work more physical. Early on I was very involved with the notion of the painting as an object and tended to attack that idea from different directions.

For years I'd thought my color was black: deep, dark, thoughtful, mysterious. Black, you can hide behind. But now I know it is red.

If I hold up a red square for 30 seconds and take it away, you will see a perfect green square. It's how the eye works. So if you want to paint a really good red painting, you have to strategically place in some green, so the eye is brought back.

Painting is damned difficult - you always think you've got it, but you haven't.

If I paint something, I don't want to have to explain what it is.

I painted one dining room red and I must say, the conversation became very heated in that room.

I've tried doing so, for it was never my intention to paint only with gray. But in the course of my work I have eliminated one color after another, and what has remained is gray, gray, gray!

You reason color more than you reason drawing... Color has a logic as severe as form.

If you've never mixed paint, you aren't going to be able to paint properly.