As long as you can change paint, you don't change. For you to change - for paint to do something to you - paint must stay constant.

The act, the doing, the taking up of paint and putting it down - the immediate impact upon your psyche or soul that occurs when you do that - has so much danger in it.

Each of us has a universal within us. There's always that making of parts - but it doesn't touch the universal within you.

As soon as you set yourself up in the position of transferring paint from one place to another, your whole culture invades you. It tells you all about the history of art.

Pulling yourself up again is the most important part of your life. Getting out of the bottom that you put everything into - yourself!

You always have the memory of the bottom, and fear of the bottom. And when you start going to the bottom you panic.

You have to give in to what the paint says... You have to do what it's telling you to do.

As soon as you see what you're looking at you have a name for it. You don't see it. The whole process of your thinking is not to see. You overcome sight by thinking.

It was told in the Bible. A man fell. He bit into knowledge and fell... How do you fall without falling completely? What do you bring as knowledge to a blank canvas? How do you begin?

The religions never wanted an art where you paint only what you see.

I painted myself out of my painting.

Love, our subject:we've trained it like ivy to our walls.

The truly successful teacher is the one you will never need again.

Before i knew the best part of my life had come ,it had gone.

she wonders if we feel more regret for the things we do or for the things we didn't do

These are characters in a fairy tale for grown-ups. Wouldn't it be lovely? Yes.

What really raises one's indignation against suffering is not suffering intrinsically, but the senselessness of suffering

Reading-not occasionally, not only on vacation but everyday-gives me nourishment and enlarges my life in mysterious and essential ways.

A healer of others, himself diseased.

The lesson I've learned the most often in life is that you're always going to know more in the future than you know now.

I have a great interest in a number of things, perhaps too many. I admire people who seem to concentrate on only one fixed discipline to the exclusion of almost everything else.