An artist is someone who makes art... He didn't invent it.

The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all your time.

I have to change to stay the same.

The attitude that nature is chaotic and that the artist puts order into it is a very absurd point of view, I think. All that we can hope for is to put some order into ourselves.

I don't paint to live, I live to paint.

What you do when you paint, you take a brush full of paint, get paint on the picture, and you have faith.

The drawings that interest me most are made with closed eyes. With eyes closed, I feel my hand slide down on the paper. I have an image in mind, but the results always surprise me.

Whatever an artist's personal feelings are, as soon as an artist fills a certain area on the canvas or circumscribes it, he becomes historical. He acts from or upon other artists.

It's really absurd to make... a human image, with paint, today, when you think about it... But then all of a sudden, it was even more absurd not to do it.

I might work on a painting for a month, but it has too look like I painted it in a minute.

Spiritually I am wherever my spirit allows me to be, and that is not necessarily in the future... Art never seems to make me peaceful or pure.

When the average American says, “I’m starving, ” it is a prelude to a midnight raid on a well-stocked refrigerator or a sudden trip to the nearest fast food restaurant.

Beauty is that which attracts your soul, and that which loves to give and not to receive.

Coloring allows folks to express themselves in a creative way. It's healthy.

I have this ability to find this hidden talent in people that sometimes even they didn't know they had.

As long as there are memories, yesterday remains. As long as there is hope, tomorrow awaits. As long as there is friendship, today is beautiful.

Anton Bruckner wrote the same symphony nine times, trying to get it just right. He failed.

The only justification we have to look down on someone is because we are about to pick him up.

Once I made a decision, I never thought about it again.

If you have life in you, you have access to the secrets of the ages, for the truth of the universe resides in each and every human being.

I pride myself in being able to straddle demographics and if that was said as Barney Stinson it would mean a little different thing.