As I say, I as an abstract artist was active politically.

I need to be alone for certain periods of time or I violate my own rhythm.

The key is what is within the artist. The artist can only paint what she or he is about.

I think my painting is so autobiographical if anyone can take the trouble to read it.

I am never free of the past. I have made it crystal clear that I believe the past is part of the present which becomes part of the future.

I have never been able to understand the artist whose image never changes.

I think, if one is a painter, all you experience does come out when you’re painting.

I like a canvas to breathe and be alive. Be alive is the point. And, as the limitations are something called pigment and canvas, let's see if I can do it.

Painting... in which the inner and the outer man are inseparable, transcends technique, transcends subject and moves into the realm of the inevitable.

We get used to a certain kind of colour of form or format, and it's acceptable. And to puncture that is sticking your neck out a bit. And then pretty soon, that's very acceptable.

I knew de Kooning and I went to his studio so I knew about de Kooning's work. But only a little handful knew about it, you know. Maybe there were ten people that knew about it.

I wont cry, it'll be fine. I'll take my last breath. Push it out my chest 'til there's nothing left.

One’s self-satisfaction is an untaxed kind of property which it is very unpleasant to find deprecated.

I think I was born with the impression that what happened in books was much more reasonable, and interesting, and real, in some ways, than what happened in life.

An army of philosophers would not be sufficient to change the nature of error and to make it truth.

I mean a lot of people think Im 19. I get carded all the time and no one think Im legal, like in the bedroom

We had to decide: Do we want to do Saturday Night or go to our Senior Prom? We opted for Saturday Night Live.

The independent films are really where I kind of come from and where I feel comfortable.

Math and music are intimately related. Not necessarily on a conscious level, but sure.

Doubt the conventional wisdom unless you can verify it with reason and experiment

Worship, from the Latin word meaning "worth-ship", is where we express God's worth to us in our lives.