Don't be a Pollyanna!

I don't go into the studio with the idea of 'saying' something. What I do is face the blank canvas and put a few arbitrary marks on it that start me on some sort of dialogue.

Attempt what is not certain. Certainty may or may not come later. It may then be a valuable delusion.

All paintings start out of a mood, out of a relationship with things or people, out of a complete visual impression

Mistakes can't be erased, but they move you from your present position.

In a successful painting everything is integral - all the parts belong to the whole. If you remove an aspect or element you are removing its wholeness.

One wants to see the artifice of the thing as well as the subject.

If you get an image try to destroy it.

I would like the colors, their shapes and positions to be arrived at in response to and dictated by the condition of the total space at the time they are considered.

My freedom will be so much the greater and more meaningful, the more narrowly I limit my field of action and the more I surround myself with obstacles.

I came to mistrust my desire to explode the picture and supercharge it in some way… what is more important is a feeling of strength in reserve – tension beneath calm.

There's a definite responsibility that comes with being famous. You shouldn't be able to just dress up and look pretty.

I'm used to the older-fashioned way of mixing: playing with three decks, always turning and twisting knobs manically.

You must radiate success before it’ll come to you.

All men know their children Mean more than life. If childless people sneer- Well, they've less sorrow. But what lonesome luck!

Life is too short to spend in negativity. So I have made a conscious effort to not be where I don't want to be.

A computer shall not waste your time or require you to do more work than is strictly necessary.

We can offer up much in the large, but to make sacrifices in little things is what we are seldom equal to.

Sometimes it's hard to hear criticism, or "maybe let's try a different way." People's feelings get hurt.

If we expose kids to books and art, nothing but good can come from it.

Sadness is simply something to be treated with antidepressant meds and otherwise need not be spoken of.