An artist must find his expression closely linked to his individual experience or else follow in the old grooves resulting in lifeless forms.

Sitting on the floor of a room in Japan, looking out on a small garden with flowers blooming and dragonflies hovering in space, I suddenly felt as if I had been too long above my boots.

On pavements and the bark of trees I have found whole worlds.

I believe that painting should come through the avenues of meditation rather than the canals of action.

The search for an equilibrium is essential for the artist, to be as aware of inner space as he is of outer space.

I am accused often of too much experimentation.., but what else should I do when all other factors of man are in the same condition. I thrust forward into space as science and the rest do.

We all feel a separateness; we wish that a drop of water would soften our ego; the world needs a common conscience: agreement... we must concentrate outside ourselves.

At a time when experimentation expresses itself in all forms of life, search becomes the only valid expression of the spirit.

According to one critic, my works looked like scraped billboards. I went to look at the billboards and decided that more billboards should be scraped.

We look at the mountain to see the painting, then we look at the painting to see the mountain.

White lines in movement symbolize a unifying idea which flows through the compartmented units of life bringing the consciousness of a larger relativity.

I would miss Colby, but it wasn't going anywhere. All the more reason why I should.

To think critically, it is first maturing and distancing a bit from self, no matter what level one lives on Maslow’s hierarchy of needs.

So revenge is obviously a deeply messed-up expression of vindictiveness. It is hard to even call it "evil." It is just plain insanity. A result of deeply messed-up thinking.

I feel like a person living on the brink of a volcano crater.

Problems occur when we tie our peace of mind to another's state of mind.

I'm going to be kind, because then it all just kind of spreads, and the world is a little nicer out there.

A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.

What I love about New York is just the electricity I feel right away.

Anywhere I can ski in the morning and sell a movie in the afternoon is good.

When we fall on the ground it hurts us, but we also need to rely on the ground to get back up.