I think of color as being seen in and throughout, not solely on the surface.

Color in color is felt at any and every place of the pictorial organization; in its immediacy - its particularity. Color must be felt throughout.

Decisions are being made a mile a minute while you're making the work, and it has to come out of experience and vision.

Alas, all too often, the dream turns into a mud puddle. I am left looking at a disaster. What to do! Keep working. I ask the Almighty for help. That frees me.

I work day and night without sleep. The paintings keep me fired up.

There is value in long years of obscurity, if one doesn't go insane or suicidal, in that, simply because nobody is looking, the habit of fooling around and trying things out gets ingrained.

I worked like a crazyman. I worked day and night, often days and nights at a time - without sleep. Gallons of coffee kept me awake; the paintings kept me fired up.

Expect Nothing, Do Your Work, Celebrate.

What I would like in my painting is simply a spray of colour that hangs like a cloud, but does not lose its shape.

I think of painting as possessed by a structure... but a structure born of the flow of color feeling.

Whatever you believe is true is true even if it is not true

Animals were not made for us, or our use. They have their own use, which is just being who they are.

Enchantment is the oldest form of medicine.

Just because a woman has a pimp doesn't necessarily mean that she's being abused by the guy. You can't know for sure.

I'm supremely uninterested as to what is written in many of the newspapers.

I love comedy. I'm not known for comedy, but I love it. I've done a lot of it, in my lifetime. But most people are surprised to hear that I made a funny movie.

To evangelize properly by delivering the gospel, we need to follow God's agenda.

I think playing coy is silly. Speak your mind. If a man gets turned off, he's the wrong man.

The first requisite of success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem without growing weary.

You do not sing because you're happy, you're happy because you sing.