Most modern painters work from a different source. They work from within.

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.

Mind isn't as serious as my mind makes it out to be.

The world only knows those that have the word in them

But when you get music and words together, that can be a very powerful thing.

Christianity has done a great deal for love by making a sin of it.

Maybe the definition of home is the place where you are never forgiven. So you may always belong there, bound by guilt. And maybe the cost of belonging is worth it.

In a comedy it helps enhance things that were already there.

The last person to get across that town in under three hours was yelling "The British are coming! The British are coming!"

No obligation to do the impossible is binding.

I have always considered myself an artist and painting was the first medium that I claimed.

I'm not dismissing the value of higher education; I'm simply saying it comes at the expense of experience.