My father didn't think being an artist was a respectable or worthy goal for a man. He hoped I would see my way to more serious work and would find myself turning towards medicine, law, or business.

I don't go into the studio with the idea of 'saying' something. What I do is face the blank canvas and put a few arbitrary marks on it that start me on some sort of dialogue.

Attempt what is not certain. Certainty may or may not come later. It may then be a valuable delusion.

All paintings start out of a mood, out of a relationship with things or people, out of a complete visual impression

Mistakes can't be erased, but they move you from your present position.

In a successful painting everything is integral - all the parts belong to the whole. If you remove an aspect or element you are removing its wholeness.

One wants to see the artifice of the thing as well as the subject.

If you get an image try to destroy it.

I would like the colors, their shapes and positions to be arrived at in response to and dictated by the condition of the total space at the time they are considered.

My freedom will be so much the greater and more meaningful, the more narrowly I limit my field of action and the more I surround myself with obstacles.

I came to mistrust my desire to explode the picture and supercharge it in some way… what is more important is a feeling of strength in reserve – tension beneath calm.

You'll be fine, just some minor burns and hypothermia, which was kind of hard to explain.

Forgiving ourselves and learning from our inevitable mistakes transforms failure from a stumbling block into a stepping stone.

Nothing perhaps is strange once you have accepted life itself the great strange business which includes all lesser strangeness.

There's a very small group of elite actresses who are my age, who people want to work with. It's not easy to get a good job with good actors.

Had it lived long, is would have been Lilies without, roses within.

Business runs hot and cold so the more you're in charge of your own destiny, the better off you are.

I know a man in Ft. Worth with 100,000 head of cattle. No bodies, just heads.

My first quote was, I don't want to hurt God's people. Jim Bakker's quote was, I was set up by a female...

Fiction, on the other hand, is like swamp fire.

A father doesn't say, 'Don't go that way.' He says, 'ome follow me.'