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.

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.

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.

Don't be a Pollyanna!

So come to the pond, or the river of your imagination, or the harbor of your longing, and put your lips to the world.And live your life.

All the birds who were never born, all the songs that were never sung and so can only exist in the imagination.And this one is Teddy's.

Friends and People are like clouds and trees that we see hustling past the window of a running train.Trees are like PEOPLE.. all running.. in the opposite direction

I think that by going on the path that I am, my destiny will just come to me.

Growing up, I found I was good at two things: Art and Math. To hear my parents say it, though, it was only, 'John is good at Math.

The more sharp weapons people have in a country, the bigger the disorder will be.

In solitude, when we are least alone.

If I were to wish for two things, they would be as much bandwidth as possible and ridiculously fast browser engines.

Protection of children from violence and abuse has always been my main activity or campaign.

There's zero correlation between being the best talker and having the best ideas.