I want painting to be difficult to do.

I don't go into the studio with the idea of 'saying' something. What I do is face the blank canvas and put a few arbitrary marks on it that start me on some sort of dialogue.

Attempt what is not certain. Certainty may or may not come later. It may then be a valuable delusion.

All paintings start out of a mood, out of a relationship with things or people, out of a complete visual impression

Mistakes can't be erased, but they move you from your present position.

In a successful painting everything is integral - all the parts belong to the whole. If you remove an aspect or element you are removing its wholeness.

One wants to see the artifice of the thing as well as the subject.

If you get an image try to destroy it.

I would like the colors, their shapes and positions to be arrived at in response to and dictated by the condition of the total space at the time they are considered.

My freedom will be so much the greater and more meaningful, the more narrowly I limit my field of action and the more I surround myself with obstacles.

I came to mistrust my desire to explode the picture and supercharge it in some way… what is more important is a feeling of strength in reserve – tension beneath calm.

A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.

The tide seldom shifts in favor of a selfish individual.

If we experienced life through the eyes of a child, everything would be magical and extraordinary. Let our curiosity, adventure and wonder of life never end.

Nothing exists in this world but me and my bed…” (p. 141).

The stench of the trail of Ego in our History. It is ego - ego, the fountain cry, origin, sole source of war.

Pray as if God will take care of all; act as if all is up to you.

That was one of the virtues of being a pessimist: nothing was ever as bad as you thought it would be.

I don't wear rubbers cause you can't catch it twice.

I don't play with a lot of finesse. I usually play like I'm breaking out of jail!

I am totally unattached to material items.