In painting, you have to destroy in order to gain... you have got to sacrifice something you are quite pleased with in order to get something better. Of course, it's a risk.

Almost everything, if one keeps one's eyes open, is potential material for painting.

I don't think anyone is free

The unknown is just as real as the known and must be made to look so.

I don't think anyone is free - one creates one's own prison.

It is not a question so much of a 'tree like a figure' or a 'root like a figure' - it is a question of bringing out the anonymous personality of these things.

Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.

Many people would be more truthful were it not for their uncontrollable desire to talk.

For the better part of my adult life, I proudly avoided nerd/nimrod/goober status. I was always just cool enough.

I think that women, especially women in my job, come to me because they know I'm very loving and nonjudgmental and I'm not competitive, and I've been through a lot.

If you have a great work in your head, nothing else thrives near it; all other thoughts are repelled, and the pleasure of life itself is for the time lost.

You are free. Close your eyes. Open your mind. Let this music in, and you will see that this is true

Just the fact that you're working is good for you.

No one is saying you're possessed by the devil anymore except the most ignorant of people in modern culture.

I ain't got no money - But I'm rich on personality

Compassion, the fairest associate of the heart.