I'm sure we don't read old paintings the way they were intended

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.

It is only men who are free, who create the inventions and intellectual works which to us moderns make life worth while.

We've had many times when a judge makes decisions that are inaccurate, and that's why we have an appeal processes

The battle outside raging will soon shake your windows and rattle your walls.

I definitely miss New Zealand. Mainly friends and family.

It is not that the university as such is against spiritual formation. It is just that often the university does not know how to integrate spiritual formation within its academic disciplines.

I knew that if I wanted to be all I could be, I would have to go to the US. It took three years to get the accent right.

When I think upon my God, my heart is full of joy that the notes dance and leap from my pen.

A CD these days is not all that convenient, and it doesn't bring enough fidelity to make you put up with that inconvenience. So, nobody buys CDs anymore.

The painter must enclose himself within his work; he must respond not with words, but with paintings.

Madness comes from God, whereas sober sense is merely human.