I get cranky real easily. So the honor of it and the wonder of it all and everything has a hard time overcoming the petty annoyances; I mean, that's simply the reality of being alive, I guess.

I don't like to say I have given my life to art. I prefer to say art has given me my life.

What you see is what you see.

I was worried in the '80s that the best abstract painting had become obsessed with materiality, and painterly gestures and materiality were up against the wall.

You see what you know!

But, after all, the aim of art is to create space - space that is not compromised by decoration or illustration, space within which the subjects of painting can live.

All I want anyone to get out of my paintings, and all I ever get out of them, is the fact that you can see the whole idea without any confusion…What you see is what you see.

Making art is complicated because the categories are always changing. You just have to make your own art, and whatever categories it falls into will come later.

A sculpture is just a painting cut out and stood up somewhere.

The aim of art is to create space.

I'm more of a house painter.That's the way I work.

I find that I am most happy and healthy when I am living in alignment with my goals, dreams, and principles.

Your life only gets better when you get better, and you can improve yourself without limit. Learn something new every day.

Every experience of love, bliss, belonging, inspiration, and insight provides a stepping stone back to your true self.

You do get certain publications in the States where, if things don't go according to plan, they flip the story and it becomes very negative.

I was doing stand-up at a restaurant and there was a chalkboard on the street out front. It said, Soup of the Day: Cream of Asparagus. Ellen DeGeneres.

You cannot make a revolution with silk gloves.

Hereditary succession to the magistracy is absurd, as it tends to make a property of it; it is incompatible with the sovereignty of the people.

We start to die when we no longer have the power to choose.

Engaging each moment without reservation cuts through the illusion that things could be other than they are.

Even as a child I remember thinking, She can beat me, but she cannot beat my outfit.