If people would just look at the paintings, I don't think they would have any trouble enjoying them. It's like looking at a bed of flowers, you don't tear your hair out over what it means.

Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.

The secret of success is… to be fully awake to everything about you.

Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you. There was a reviewer a while back who wrote that my pictures didn't have any beginning or any end. He didn't mean it as a compliment, but it was.

Art is coming face to face with yourself.

There is no accident, just as there is no beginning and no end.

Painting is no problem. The problem is what to do when you're not painting.

It doesn't matter how the paint is put on, as long as something is said.

The modern artist is working with space and time, and expressing his feelings rather than illustrating.

Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you.

You can't learn techniques and then try to become a painter. Techniques are a result.

Every moment is a moment of hope, moment of beauty, a moment of joy and it is our life.

He's tall with shaggy blond hair and muscular arms. He's holding a twenty-dollar bill. He's muscular. And he's holding a twenty--wait, I already said that.

I carefully returned the files to my mother’s drawer and left the house with one objective: find Christina Georgia.

Appreciate the power of rumor, often malicious, no matter how preposterous, within the local populations you are seeking to help.

I am eagerly awaiting my next disappointment.

A thing may in itself be the finest piece of writing one has ever done, and yet have absolutely no place in the manuscript one hopes to publish.

People have learned to escape Reality very well but too often lose their way back.

I'm so lucky to have such a great family. I respect them so much professionally, and they've been unconditionally supportive in the choices that I've made. It's been very good having them on my side.

Track and field, because it was something I could do by myself, one-on-one, me against everybody else.

I despise making the most of one's time. Half of the pleasures of life consist of the opportunities one has neglected.