Generally, I am opposed to painting which is concerned with conceptions of simplicity. Everything looks busy to me.

As one gets older one sees many more paths that could be taken. Artists sense within their own work that kind of swelling of possibilities, which may seem a freedom or a confusion.

Bend color names which should be made of neon or copper tubing. Place an object on a surface - trace the object - then bend the object - leaving some part of it attached.

To be an artist you have to give up everything, including the desire to be a good artist.

Take an object. Do something to it. Do something else to it.

One night I dreamed that I painted a large American flag, and the next morning I got up and I went out and bought the materials to begin it.

When something is new to us, we treat it as an experience. We feel that our senses are awake and clear. We are alive.

I assumed that everything would lead to complete failure, but I decided that didn't matter – that would be my life.

One works without thinking how to work.

It's simple, you just take something and do something to it, and then do something else to it. Keep doing this, and pretty soon you've got something.

Art is either a complaint or appeasement.

Fate is nothing but the past in the future. It is only an excuse for inaction.

Every violent storm will eventually give way to sunshine

There’s no law against admiring a best friend’s sister.

There are people who are always anticipating trouble and in this way they manage to enjoy many sorrows that never really happen.

Whether you like it or not, you will leave a leadership legacy.

Matters of fact, which as Mr Budgell somewhere observes, are very stubborn things.

I'm a descendant of someone bought and sold, and brought in 1619 in what was to become the United States.

All wonder is the effect of novelty on ignorance.

Men of thoughtless actions are always surprised by consequences.

If anybody gets highbrow around the studio, out he goes.