I think a painting is more like the real world if it's made out the real world.

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.

Our fathers of faith have done a great job delivering our nations from the clutches of idolatry and witchcraft through signs and wonders

A wholesome oblivion of one's neighbours is the beginning of wisdom.

It's through discipline and tremendous disappointment and failure that you arrive at what it is you must paint.

The goal is to make practice more difficult, physically/mentally, than anything your players will face during a game.

Friends, lovers, or nothing, we can really only ever be one.

It is strange to reflect how much energy is thrown away in attempting to know the unknowable.

It's easier for me to accept that I can't play anymore because I literally gave it all I got. That allows me to be a little bit more at peace.

After finishing the work I start rearranging the parts again and eventually start to work with themes - images and thoughts and things.

But it pleased God to visit us then with death daily, and with so general a disease that the living were scarce able to bury the dead.

"I wouldn't be in your position" - old saw. If there is any political move that I would advocate it would be an alliance between America and Red China, if they'd have us.