I am against limitations like perspective. Perspective is illusion, it's the opposite of presence, and art is presence.

It's what I do that teaches me what I'm looking for.

Painting isn't just pretty or pleasant; it is something that helps you to stand alone and face yourself.

If painting doesn't offer a way to dream and create emotions, then it's not worth it.

Painting is a play of opacities and transparencies.

For me, it's important to experience aesthetic shock, which sets in motion our imagination, our emotions, our feelings, and our thoughts. That's the purpose of a painting and of art in general.

I realized that most people waste their lives earning a living, and I wanted to live. I love painting, so I keep painting. That's how I became an artist.

I never want to stop painting. I'm 94 now. What's my secret? I just keep thinking about the painting I'm going to do tomorrow.

Black ink was always my favorite. I loved it. And then one day I realized that the only thing I ever wanted to do was to paint.

Prehistoric art came to move me much more than Greek art. Greek art has beautiful women and handsome men, but I don't care.

I always liked paintings to be walls rather than windows. When we see a painting on a wall, it's a window, so I often put my paintings in the middle of the space to make a wall.

I want Jesus to come back and say 'THATS NOT WHAT I MEANT'" -

With all my heart, I’m willing to try a start

Unfortunately, that still leaves plenty of Americans who don't read much or think much -- who will still be extremely useful in unjust wars. We are sick about that. We did the best we could.

If by years of patient suffering, God can manage to take the harshness out of my voice, then the time has been well-spent.

Don't look at the sun, but rather what it illuminates.

I'm not going to get drunk at a bar. There are younger girls who look up to me. So I do my best not to stray too far.

It is in the thousands of days of trying, failing, sitting, thinking, resisting, dreaming, raveling, unraveling that we are at our most engaged, alert, and alive.

In direct contradiciton to the American dream, God actually delights in exalting our inability.

Liberating tolerance, then, would mean intolerance against movements from the Right, and toleration of movements from the Left.

We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until we have stopped saying 'It got lost,' and say, 'I lost it.'