I got so I was really just sick of sculpture.

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.

Sometimes I think the difference between what we want and what we're afraid of is about the width of an eyelash.

It's funny how one life-changing event could make you forget what happiness felt like.

Don't Fear the Reaper.

I ground my faith upon God's word, and not upon the church.

Liberty sets the mind free, fosters independence and unorthodox thinking and ideas. But it does not offer instant prosperity or happiness and wealth to everyone.

It is simply impossible to control a large painting with the edge in the same way that you can control a small one.

I don't mind people not liking me as long as there's mutual respect.

I think any family would, any mother would their children.

Come and love me, be my apeman girl, and we will be so happy in my apeman world.