I always have searched for a point of view that a participant could change.

There is no reason not to consider the world as one gigantic painting.

You begin with the possibilities of the material.

I don't really trust ideas - especially good ones... Rather, I put my trust in the materials that confront me, because they put me in touch with the unknown.

The only thing that I could get with chance, and I never was able to use it, was that I would end up with something quite geometric or the spirit that I was interested in, indulging in, was gone.

It is neither Art for Art, nor Art against Art. I am for Art, but for Art that has nothing to do with Art. Art has everything to do with life, but it has nothing to do with Art.

I've not been cursed with talent, which could be a great inhibitor.

An empty canvas is full.

The artist's job is to be a witness to his time in history.

I don't think of myself as making art. I do what I do because I want to, because painting is the best way I've found to get along with myself.

Even at this late date, I go into my studio, and I think 'Is this going to be it? Is it the end?' You see, nearly everything terrorizes me. When an artist loses that terror, he's through.

Every night death came, slowly, painfully, and every morning Maddox awoke in bed, knowing he'd have to die again later. That was his greatest curse and his eternal punishment.

Politics is not leadership. It never has been. It never will be.

I have now disposed of all my property to my family. There is one thing more I wish I could give them, and that is the Christian religion.

God doesn't work for us; we work for God.

We know we only have about half of our population that's voting.

Hillary Clinton turned the State Department into her private hedge fund. The Russians, the Saudis, the Chinese - all gave money to Bill And Hillary and got favourable treatment in return.

Real guts are nothing more than developing your inner voice to the point where it is louder and stronger than the voice of your fear.

I just want to feel as much as I can, it's what soul is all about.

I have learned that most of us must face some form of challenge in our lives. But without hardship, we wouldn’t learn and grow.

I take it that no man is educated who has never dallied with the thought of suicide.