And I can just see that sometimes the technique is blasting powder rather than steady struggle.

I don't go into the studio with the idea of 'saying' something. What I do is face the blank canvas and put a few arbitrary marks on it that start me on some sort of dialogue.

Attempt what is not certain. Certainty may or may not come later. It may then be a valuable delusion.

All paintings start out of a mood, out of a relationship with things or people, out of a complete visual impression

Mistakes can't be erased, but they move you from your present position.

In a successful painting everything is integral - all the parts belong to the whole. If you remove an aspect or element you are removing its wholeness.

One wants to see the artifice of the thing as well as the subject.

If you get an image try to destroy it.

I would like the colors, their shapes and positions to be arrived at in response to and dictated by the condition of the total space at the time they are considered.

My freedom will be so much the greater and more meaningful, the more narrowly I limit my field of action and the more I surround myself with obstacles.

I came to mistrust my desire to explode the picture and supercharge it in some way… what is more important is a feeling of strength in reserve – tension beneath calm.

Some things are worth the wait. A little suspense heightens the pleasure.

It’s a number.”“It’s not, ” she said. “It’s a chance to wake up new.

When people appear to be something other than good and decent, it is only because they are reacting to stress, pain, or the deprivation of basic human needs such as security, love, and self-esteem.

I think in black communities today we need to encourage a lot more cross racial organizing.

Do your best when no one is looking. If you do that, then you can be successful at anything you put your mind to

But I'm willing to take a chance on believing there has to be a way. All I need is someone to believe with me.

The Indian Railways will become the growth engine of the nation's 'Vikas Yatra'.

Nothing would make me happier if Peter Falk would finally win his Oscar for this. Not just as the writer but as a fan and a friend. It would be so great

Life is full of doors that don't open when you knock, equally spaced amid those that open when you don't want them to.

The pressure of the hands causes the springs of life to flow.