An artwork should point in more than one direction, not be this sort of placating, self-demonstrating, witnessing element.

When you feel concentrated within the intensity of making paintings, you know exactly what you are doing.

All art is failure. How one fails is a different matter.

Life is politics, basically, but you don't just go to a gallery and put the words 'art' and 'politics' on the wall.

It is not important to convince people; they should convince themselves, they should look with their own eyes.

Every painting has a weakness and a breaking point, where the essence of a painting lies. In my case it is never in the centre.

When critics or art historians or curators ask me why I still paint, the answer is that I am not naive.

The purpose of life is to emit positive vibrations in every direction in every way.

Jesus Christ is not just 'my personal Savior'. He is Lord.

Well, you probably will always believe there should be laws against fraud, and I don't think there is any need for a law against fraud.

Remember that the biggest thing you could do today is a small act of kindness.

In 1972 I married again, to Elisabeth Case; she continues to be wife, companion, critic and editor: a partner in the projects and programs that we undertake.

A garden is the mirror of a mind. It is a place of life, a mystery of green moving to the pulse of the year, and pressing on and pausing the whole to its own inherent rhythms.

A sea setting us upon the ice has brought us close to danger.

The Big-Media collective, however, is slow, stupid and shackled by ideology. Reality must bite them before they’ll recognize it, much less report it.

I like challenges. If you're involved, as one is, in filmmaking, you want to challenge yourself. You don't want to repeat what you're done before.

I see you everywhere, in the stars, in the river, to me you're everything that exists; the reality of everything.