Art is coming face to face with yourself.

Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.

The secret of success is… to be fully awake to everything about you.

If people would just look at the paintings, I don't think they would have any trouble enjoying them. It's like looking at a bed of flowers, you don't tear your hair out over what it means.

Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you. There was a reviewer a while back who wrote that my pictures didn't have any beginning or any end. He didn't mean it as a compliment, but it was.

There is no accident, just as there is no beginning and no end.

Painting is no problem. The problem is what to do when you're not painting.

It doesn't matter how the paint is put on, as long as something is said.

The modern artist is working with space and time, and expressing his feelings rather than illustrating.

Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you.

You can't learn techniques and then try to become a painter. Techniques are a result.

Counting your chickens before they hatch is only wise if God has told you how many will survive.

Enjoy every moment as much as you can because you never know when those memories will show their back to you.

She woke up thin. She loved it when that happened.

But to what end? Some... future revolution? It can never succeed.As Seneca warned Nero: No matter how many of us you kill, you will never kill your successor.

I do not know if there is a more dreadful word in the English language than that word "lost."

In common with Michelangelo and Rembrandt I am more interested in the line, its rise and fall, than in color

Stupidity makes you dangerous-to yourself and everyone around you.

I am as omnivorous as it's possible to be. I always say there's nothing I won't eat and nothing I won't wear.

Run towards your fears. Embrace them. On the other side of your greatest fears lives your greatest life.

The true pleasure of life is to live with your inferiors.