By the time you establish your priorities, there really isn't any fun or need to interest yourself in what you're doing. And this I find disastrous.

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.

Because of the president's leadership, every American will have access to affordable, quality health care.

All the masterpieces of art contain both light and shadow. A happy life is not one filled with only sunshine, but one which uses both light and shadow to produce beauty.

I think there is a possible future where maybe we do just take a hard turn away from the Internet and we do start valuing our privacy again.

I am myself impressed by the great social advantages of increasing the stock of capital until it ceases to be scarce.

To be the father of a nation is a great honor, but to be the father of a family is a greater joy.

You don't want to rely on an expert to tell you what lies ahead.

Marry yourself first -- promise never to leave you!

A military operation involves deception. Even though you are competent, appear to be incompetent. Though effective, appear to be ineffective.

There tends to be a lot of autism around the tech centers... when you concentrate the geeks, you're concentrating the autism genetics.

Writing and learning and thinking are the same process.