Half the world wants to be like Thoreau worrying about the noise of traffic on the way up to Boston; the other half use up their lives being part of that noise. I like the second half.

You paint the way you have to in order to give. That's life itself, and someone will look and say it is the product of knowing, but it has nothing to do with knowing, it has to do with giving.

People sometimes think I take a white canvas and paint a black sign on it,but this is not true.I paint the white as well as the black and the white is just as important.

I paint not the things I see but the feelings they arouse in me.

The final test of a painting, theirs, mine, any other, is: do the painter's emotions come across?

If I feel a painting I'm working on doesn't have imagery or emotion, I paint it out and work over it until it does.

If you're a painter, you're not alone. There's no way to be alone.

You instinctively like what you can't do.

To be right is the most terrific personal state that nobody is interested in.

The nature of anguish is translated into different forms.

... truth has a certain buoyancy - it makes its way to the surface, in time.

Creativity - waking up in a different place every day.

The mantra that you're given in Transcendental Meditation you keep to yourself. The reason being, true happiness is not out there, true happiness lies within.

When times get tough, at some point, people instinctively know they need to lighten up in order to get through it.

I grew up in the Midwest, so we really didn't have much hockey going on.

What you have inherited from your fathers, earn over again for yourselves, or it will not be yours.

Too many companies want their brands to reflect some idealised, perfected image of themselves. As a consequence, their brands acquire no texture, no character and no public trust.

Learn the duty as well as taste the pleasure of original work.

With my doctor, I don't get no respect. I told him I want a vasectomy. He said with a face like mine, I don't need one.

One of the things that characterizes good intellectual work is a certain self-importance