I describe in a realistic form a nonrealistic Reality.

When you start a painting, it is somewhat outside you. At the conclusion, you seem to move inside the painting.

Art is a spiritual, immaterial respite from the hardships of life.

An artist is attracted to certain kinds of form without knowing why. You adopt a position intuitively; only later do you attempt to rationalize or even justify it.

Man needs music, literature, and painting - all those oases of perfection that make up art - to compensate for the rudeness and materialism of life.

In art, as long as you have ideas and think, you are bound to deform nature. Art is deformation.

The richness of an artist is the fusion of influences that have shaped his life and work.

Man needs spiritual expression and nourishing... even in the prehistoric era, people would scrawl pictures of bison on the walls of caves.

I often think about death and it saddens me to leave this world and not be able to paint more. I love it so much.

I'm a tireless worker; I don't consider painting a work, it is not an obligation, I do it for pleasure; I haven't found anything that amuses me more than painting.

I work more now perhaps because I know that there is so little time left.

Happy is the man who has learned the causes of things.

The danger in reviewing and teaching literature for a living (is) you can develop a kind of knee-jerk superiority to the material you're "decoding

A leader is skating up hill on a slippery slope when Servant Leadership is not part of a leaders philosophy.

When I put my pen to a blank sheet, black isn’t added but rather the white sheet is deprived of light. [] Thus I also grasped that the empty spaces are the most important aspect of a typeface.

When you're fighting for economic and social justice, you're always fighting for the minority.

I don't worry about how accurately I convey my personality. I learned early on that it's almost impossible to accurately portray yourself.

Regrettably, we've made it acceptable to sit in church week after week & do nothing & still call yourself a 'Christian.'

I am 26 and, and I don't recover as fast as I have in the past.

People attach too much importance to intangibles like heart, desire and clutch hitting.

I was so opposed to the war in Vietnam that I initially refused President Nixon's urgings for me to go there.