I prefer images that are less specific, so there is room for everyone's imagination.

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.

A complete life may be one ending in so full identification with the non-self that there is no self to die.

Failure is only permanent where resiliency fails to exist.

The key to your happiness, Depends on what's in focus.

I've always preferred crazy to stupid. Stupid can break your heart.

I would like not only to have a successful band, but I want to have children, a home, and a husband. Two or three. Children, not husbands!!!

If you shoot an arrow and it goes real high... Hooray for you.

When someone has the wit to coin a useful phrase, it ought to be acclaimed and broadcast or it will perish.

You know those drugstore kits that tell you when you're pregnant? They should have one that tells you when you're sane.

The goal of Scientology is making the individual capable of living a better life in his own estimation and with his fellows and the playing of a better game.

At night numbers must sleep; it is their duty, just as it is their duty to work in the daytime. Not sleeping at night is a criminal offense.