In response to the question, 'How do you know when you're finished?' Pollock replied, 'How do you know when you're finished making love?

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

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

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.

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.

My brain as the engine, with thoughts trailing to the caboose, on a one-track mind we keep going forward.

My music is my No. 1, and I've got people who believe in me and keep me going. I'm thankful.

Anger is certainly a kind of baseness, as it appears well in the weakness of those subjects in whom it reigns: children, women, old folks, sick folks.

My relationship to power and authority is that I'm all for it.

Even in my most inflamed moment I never supported a racist mass murderer.

Computers are good at following instructions, but not at reading your mind.

Three quarters of producers don't even know who I am. The other quarter think I am dead.

My palate is simpler than it used to be. A young chef adds and adds and adds to the plate. As you get older, you start to take away.

You must attain a neurological and biological serenity in chaos. You cannot let yourself be sabotaged by adrenaline.

Fighting the wounds of the past will only deepen those wounds. Relaxation is the method that heals the wounds of the mind, not reaction.