Collage-making, for me, is basically an act of painting, allowing me to indulge in an appetite for immediacy.

I advise students on the subject of color as follows: If it looks good enough to eat, use it.

Somewhere in my head, a private conviction exists that 'Search is the Process' and 'Discovery the Art Form.

The search which takes place in my studio might best be described as a mining operation, a vertical dig in which a number of discoveries are apt to surface from a single shaft.

It is essential for me to become involved in another search, and 'search' is the proper word to use because it promises discovery along with the risk.

Kindess is a mirror which reflects the beauty of the heart.

Remember you are the perfect reflector of your mind.

You only have one chance for a first impression.

[..] the great modern commandment - the eleventh commandment which has wiped out all the others: 'Thou shalt not lose thy job.

Letter-writing is the only device for combining solitude with good company.

Live by faith. Live out loud. And never stop believing God-day by day.

Incompetents invariably make trouble for people other than themselves.

That's the thing: We didn't really care. A world without love is also a world without stakes.

You be greater than your feelings. I don't demand this of you - life does. Otherwise you'll be washed away by feelings. You'll be washed out to sea and never seen again.

I believe novels can have secrets from their author, a notion I imagine would appall Nabokov.