Basically painting is total idiocy.

There is no reason not to consider the world as one gigantic painting.

You begin with the possibilities of the material.

I don't really trust ideas - especially good ones... Rather, I put my trust in the materials that confront me, because they put me in touch with the unknown.

The only thing that I could get with chance, and I never was able to use it, was that I would end up with something quite geometric or the spirit that I was interested in, indulging in, was gone.

It is neither Art for Art, nor Art against Art. I am for Art, but for Art that has nothing to do with Art. Art has everything to do with life, but it has nothing to do with Art.

I've not been cursed with talent, which could be a great inhibitor.

An empty canvas is full.

The artist's job is to be a witness to his time in history.

I don't think of myself as making art. I do what I do because I want to, because painting is the best way I've found to get along with myself.

Even at this late date, I go into my studio, and I think 'Is this going to be it? Is it the end?' You see, nearly everything terrorizes me. When an artist loses that terror, he's through.

If you don’t want to work you have to work to earn enough money so that you won’t have to work.

Let's not allow the voice of the people to be overwhelmed by the siren song of those who opposed regulation, who demanded that government should stand aside and let finance and business run the show.

Femininity is a lot of power. It's allure. And the moment you start competing directly with a man, it's not that fun.

Complacency by the watchdogs hurts both taxpayers and beneficiaries.

God is the foundation of liberty. Because if God is not, who is? The government?

Democracy is the worst kind of government, I'm sorry. Would you still call yourself a Christian if they elected a new Jesus every four years?

Where I come from these days, anybody who isn't seeing a therapist needs to.

An honest money system is the only alternative.

Audacity, and again, audacity, and always audacity.

Every girl is beautiful, it's society that's ugly.