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

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.

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.

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

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.

Corporate rule number 7

know one day, I will be gone.

I don't put big concepts on my work, and it's all often about keeping actors in a room together and not letting them leave.

Imagination is more powerful than knowledge.

True disciples are those who go beyond simply believing. They act out their belief.

My most famous drama in England is quite controversial. It's something called Men Only, and it's rather a shocking exploration of male sexuality.

War, to sane men at the present day, begins to look like an epidemic insanity, breaking out here and there like the cholera or influenza, infecting men's brains instead of their bowels.

There is no sorrow like a love denied. Nor any joy like love that has its will.

As a kid I used to pretend I was John Denver, of all people, and play the guitar and sing Take Me Home, Country Roads.

I don’t have to walk my dog anymore. I walked him all at once.