Robert Ryman quotes:

The real purpose of painting is to give pleasure.

I don't abstract from anything."¦I am involved with real space, the room itself, real light, and real surface.

My approach tends to be from experiments. I need the challenge. If I know how to do something well, there's no need to do it all the time because it becomes a little monotonous. So I like to find a challenge.

There is never a question of what to paint but only how to paint.

What painting is, is exactly what people see.