I have meant what I have done. Or I have often meant what I have done. Or I have sometimes meant what I have done. Or I have tried to mean what I was doing.

As one gets older one sees many more paths that could be taken. Artists sense within their own work that kind of swelling of possibilities, which may seem a freedom or a confusion.

Bend color names which should be made of neon or copper tubing. Place an object on a surface - trace the object - then bend the object - leaving some part of it attached.

To be an artist you have to give up everything, including the desire to be a good artist.

Take an object. Do something to it. Do something else to it.

One night I dreamed that I painted a large American flag, and the next morning I got up and I went out and bought the materials to begin it.

When something is new to us, we treat it as an experience. We feel that our senses are awake and clear. We are alive.

I assumed that everything would lead to complete failure, but I decided that didn't matter – that would be my life.

One works without thinking how to work.

It's simple, you just take something and do something to it, and then do something else to it. Keep doing this, and pretty soon you've got something.

Art is either a complaint or appeasement.

All dreams continue in the beyond.

Keep windows of your mind always open, and let the breeze of peace come in with the fragrance of happiness.

Unless you are silent, you will notknow your urgent heart, how it beatsbetween the thin skin of yes and no.

For what shall we do when we wake one day to find we have lost touch with our heart and with it the very refuge where God’s presence resides? a

It’s amazing how a bed feels more like a home than any other part of a house.

Nothing in life is worthwhile unless you take risks. Fall forward. Every failed experiment is one step closer to success.

Any man who is a bear on the future of this country will go broke.

No club that wins a pennant once is an outstanding club. One which bunches two pennants is a good club. But a team which can win three in a row really achieves greatness.

With experience in boxing, you learn how to be a scientific boxer and how to fight easy.

There's a big, wonderful world out there for you. It belongs to you. It's exciting and stimulating and rewarding. Don't cheat yourselves out of this promise.