It fascinates me to create beautiful paintings with the simplest means.

History is remembered by its art, not its war machines.

Paintings are memories. Memories of the painter who painted them. Memories that can be shared as well. Paintings are things to remember things by.

I'm always trying to do things that no one has ever seen before.

I tell young people that the greatest paintings in museums are made with minerals mixed in oil smeared on cloth with the hair from the back of a pig's ear. It's that simple.

I was probably born with the ability to draw, but that does not make you an artist.

In many ways my paintings are about energy — both in how they are created and the image itself.

Whenever I got a new studio I made the largest possible painting, and since the ceiling was low, the painting became horizontal. As I changed studios and got larger spaces, I made bigger paintings.

If you are close to it, a big painting is just a feeling around you, that's all.

I went to the University of Minnesota, and I met this amazing artist named Cameron Boothe there who was in World War I, who studied with Hans Hoffman in Munich.

Love is the magic ink, which transform everyday life into a poetry.

Contra: Why don't you trust me honey? Wait, rather I doubt that you are in a going around.

The only person that you should try to be better than, is nobody else but your old self.

So many gods, so many creeds, so many paths that wind and wind while just the art of being kind is all the sad world needs.

I don't like to know too much because I'm a terrible liar.

The real pleasure,the real peace, the real enlightenment is to give. The more you give the more you get. If you give 10, you get 100.

Wit is better as a seasoning than as a whole dish by itself.

I've never been too afraid of what other people have said, especially when I was younger, but I suppose that was the arrogance of youth.

Love is like an eternal flame, once it is lit, it will continue to burn for all time.

... there has never been a period in history when there have been necessary killings which has not been instantly followed by a period when there have been unnecessary killings.