Ellsworth Kelly

"It was a cold, gray Parisian winter,” says the painter, seated in his studio in Spencertown, New York, almost two hours north along the Hudson from where he was born and raised, in Newburgh. “I was always really broke in Paris—I’d gone over on the GI Bill, but that ended after several months. Finally I sold some textile designs to the Swiss silk manufacturer Gustav Zumsteg, who had seen my paintings at Galerie Maeght: ten drawings for $100 each. I felt so rich that I went to the South of France with friends."

Blinky Palermo

"Given his premature death and lack of written material, any interpretation (of Palermo' work) seems to go ... Yet nobody really pinpoints what might make Palermo an artist of relevance. It seems to be a given but an unexplained given." (Luis Camnitzer)

John Baldessari

"A New Sense of Order (The Art Teacher Story) – A friend of mine who taught painting had all his students stand on one feet only (in front of the easels) while painting. He believed that if the student was physically off balance a new sense of order would emerge in their work."

Dorothea Rockburne

"Although I am a painter, I also have a doctorate in mathematics and so the structure of my work is mathematical. When you get into higher math, it’s thrilling. It’s living in another world. The way that mathematics always uses the elegant solution, my work has an elegant solution aspect to it. But explain it, I can’t. That’s why I do it, because it’s not explainable in language." (Dorothea Rockburne)

Michelle Stuart

"Well, when you look back you’re including other peoples’ comments about the work – it becomes an accumulation of everybody’s ideas and you can’t escape that." (Michelle Stuart in an Interview with Gabrielle Schwarz, 2018)

Herman de Vries

"hdv: wenn ich immer nur suchen würde, würde ich nie etwas finden. ich muss es finden." (Herman de Vries in an Interview with Robert Jelinek, 2014)