There are two problems in painting. One is to find out what painting is and the other is to find out how to make a painting. The first is learning something and the second is making something. The Pratt lecture (1960)
There's always been a trend toward simpler painting and it was bound to happen one way or another. Whenever painting gets complicated, like Abstract Expressionism, or surrealism, there's going to be someone who's not painting complicated paintings, someone who's trying to simplify... The Pratt lecture (1960)