If you're a painter, you're not alone. There's no way to be alone.

You paint the way you have to in order to give. That's life itself, and someone will look and say it is the product of knowing, but it has nothing to do with knowing, it has to do with giving.

People sometimes think I take a white canvas and paint a black sign on it,but this is not true.I paint the white as well as the black and the white is just as important.

I paint not the things I see but the feelings they arouse in me.

The final test of a painting, theirs, mine, any other, is: do the painter's emotions come across?

If I feel a painting I'm working on doesn't have imagery or emotion, I paint it out and work over it until it does.

Half the world wants to be like Thoreau worrying about the noise of traffic on the way up to Boston; the other half use up their lives being part of that noise. I like the second half.

You instinctively like what you can't do.

To be right is the most terrific personal state that nobody is interested in.

The nature of anguish is translated into different forms.

The sun shall lead you in the day.The stars will guide you at night.

I earn my own respect, " I told Emilie. "I don't ride the coattails of someone else.

Do you understand what I'm saying?Pardon? I just wanna hear you talking.

Give the labourer his wage before his perspiration be dry.

My worst hair experience was when I was trying to relax my hair and my grandmother did it. It went all straight and I looked like a black Bee Gee.

No one knows how to make going to orbit orders of magnitude safer and orders of magnitude more affordable.

Uprootedness uproots everything except the need for roots.

Think pink, but don't wear it.

I'm not someone who's endlessly patient and wonderful.

Loss teaches you to figure things out as they come along.