Don't everlastingly read messages into paintings - there's the Daisy - you don't rave over or read messages into it - you just look at that bully little flower - isn't that enough?

Give the paint a chance. Give the brush a chance.

How to paint the landscape: First you make your bow to the landscape. Then you wait, and if the landscape bows to you, then, and only then, can you paint the landscape.

Give the instruments a chance - their sounds are quite beautiful.

Painting is like Golf, the fewer the strokes I take, the better the picture.

Art is not great. Music is not great. It's just that they tickle us. When one steadfastly refuses greatness - then and then only can the wonderful thing we call art be created.

Give paint a chance to show itself entirely as paint.

A true work of art can stand many seeings, revealing anew at each seeing.

Art is just a series of natural gestures. For God's sake, don't try to be artistic - all wild animals walk the same way.

But fear doesn't need doors and windows. It works from the inside.

When you see recurring problems, the methods you’ve used successfully in the past have to be reevaluated.

When I want your opinion I'll give it to you.

When you're in love with God, you're not afraid to yield your life to Him.

I find you get out of people what you put into them.

Don't let anybody raise you. You've been raised.

One key symptom of alcoholism is that the individual comes to need a drink for every mood-one to calm down, one to perk up, one to celebrate, one to deal with disappointment, and so on.

You have to have the time to feel sorry for yourself in order to be a good abstract expressionist.

One thing I know, that I know nothing. This is the source of my wisdom.

Generally speaking, I think it is unbecoming to act as a national hero, wave hands and so on.