I think my painting is so autobiographical if anyone can take the trouble to read it.

I need to be alone for certain periods of time or I violate my own rhythm.

The key is what is within the artist. The artist can only paint what she or he is about.

I am never free of the past. I have made it crystal clear that I believe the past is part of the present which becomes part of the future.

I have never been able to understand the artist whose image never changes.

I think, if one is a painter, all you experience does come out when you’re painting.

I like a canvas to breathe and be alive. Be alive is the point. And, as the limitations are something called pigment and canvas, let's see if I can do it.

Painting... in which the inner and the outer man are inseparable, transcends technique, transcends subject and moves into the realm of the inevitable.

We get used to a certain kind of colour of form or format, and it's acceptable. And to puncture that is sticking your neck out a bit. And then pretty soon, that's very acceptable.

As I say, I as an abstract artist was active politically.

I knew de Kooning and I went to his studio so I knew about de Kooning's work. But only a little handful knew about it, you know. Maybe there were ten people that knew about it.

@bobbybaird i'm a writer, so are you. we try to compose our thoughts and words for effect as well as sense. vain of us? a bit.

The greedy man is incontent with a whole world set before him.

Unfortunately, people are re-interpreting the Constitution as a living document, and it's not. It's a solid-based document and it shouldn't be played with.

If America is the pursuit of happiness, the best way to pursue happiness is to help other people.

A toleration of slavery is, in effect, a toleration of inhumanity.

something is always falling apart in me.

Unfortunately I have never been good in math. Numbers simply do not interest me or seem as real to me as words.

in my skimmings over fiction I cannot recall any writer so continuously implicated in his own work as George Moore.

What is philosophy? It is something that lightens up, that makes bright.