Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you. There was a reviewer a while back who wrote that my pictures didn't have any beginning or any end. He didn't mean it as a compliment, but it was.

Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.

The secret of success is… to be fully awake to everything about you.

If people would just look at the paintings, I don't think they would have any trouble enjoying them. It's like looking at a bed of flowers, you don't tear your hair out over what it means.

Art is coming face to face with yourself.

There is no accident, just as there is no beginning and no end.

Painting is no problem. The problem is what to do when you're not painting.

It doesn't matter how the paint is put on, as long as something is said.

The modern artist is working with space and time, and expressing his feelings rather than illustrating.

Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you.

You can't learn techniques and then try to become a painter. Techniques are a result.

How can you know God if you don't seek out his voice, find it, and learn to follow the path he is leading you on

Our family life was certainly not intellectual.

This is bad," said Jace. "You said that before." "It seemed worth repeating.

Being rational is a moral Imperative. You should never be stupider than you need to be.

It doesn't matter where the ball is or what the situation is. I can look around to the guys on my left and right, and know that they are ready to go.

The modern artist... is working and expressing an inner world - in other words - expressing the energy, the motion, and other inner forces.

It was 100,000 years before we figured out what to do with fire. Imagine cavemen, sitting in front of a fire, eating raw meat for 100 thousand years.

How embarrassing to be human.

There is a point, and it is reached more easily than is supposed, where interference with freedom of the arts and literature becomes an attack on the life of society.

It's a gut feeling. And when two people have the same gut feeling, you have a brand.