“A form if it breathes some, if it has some enigma to it, it is also the enigma that is the abstract, I would think.”

The abstraction, ostensibly, is simply for me the penetration of something that is more profound in many ways than rigidity of a form.

I never abstract from nature; I never consciously think of nature when I paint.

All abstract sciences are nothing but the study of relations between signs.

The only and one way to say what abstract art or art-as-art is, is to say what it is not.

The one object of fifty years of abstract art is to present art-as-art and as nothing else, to make it into the one thing it is only, separating and defining it more and more

Making it purer and emptier, more absolute and more exclusive – non-objective, non-representational, non-figurative, non-imagist, non-expressionist, non-subjective.

I wanted to be a painter, somewhere between Abstract Expressionism and Pop.

I see philosophy as a fairly abstract activity, as concerned mainly with the analysis of criticism and concepts, and of course most usefully of scientific concepts.

Some manufacturers illustrate their advertisements with abstract paintings. I would only do this if I wished to conceal from the reader what I was advertising.