An artist's failures are as valuable as his successes: by misjudging one thing he conforms something else, even if at the time he does not know what that something else is.

As the artist picks his way along, rejecting and accepting as he goes, certain patterns of enquiry emerge.

Focusing isn't just an optical activity; it is also a mental one.

If you can allow colour to breathe, to occupy its own space, to play its own game in its unstable way, it's wanton behaviour, so to speak. It is promiscuous like nothing.

The word 'paradox' has always had a kind of magic for me, and I think my pictures have a paradoxical quality, a paradox of chaos and order in one.

For me nature is not landscape, but the dynamism of visual forces.

I never make studies from nature. They would get in the way. I make use of my mind.

It is important that the painting can be inhabited, so that the mind's eye, or the eye's mind, can move about it credibly.

It seems the deeper, truer personality of the artist only emerges in the making of decisions... in refusing and accepting, changing and revising.

Painting is a science pursued as an enquiry into the laws of nature...Observation is considered the key to natural science.

Painting is, I think, inevitably an archaic activity and one that depends on spiritual values.

The stars have their own language, you know. If you're careful, you can learn it.

5 rules to live a happier life: 1) Love yourself. 2) Do good. 3) Always forgive. 4) Harm no one. 5) Be positive.

Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice.

We can actually put the essence of neurosis in a single word: blaming - or damning.

I hadn't focused on mechanics since I signed professionally.

Without appreciation and respect for other people, true leadership becomes ineffective, if not impossible.

The three things a guy should want to change about his girl is her last name, address and her viewpoint on men.

I would lock myself in my room and drink a case of Corona and smoke a load of pot.

I will give you a show that you've never ever seen before, why?...Because I can

Where the telescope ends the microscope begins, and which has the wider vision?