My favorite symbols were those which I didn't understand.

Painting is self-discovery. You arrive at the image through the act of painting.

Certain people always say we should go back to nature.I notice they never say we should go forward to nature. It seemstometheyare more concerned that we should go back, than about nature.

I use color in terms of emotional quality, as a vehicle for feeling... feeling is everything I have experienced or thought.

I never use nature as a starting point. I never abstract from nature; I never consciously think of nature when I paint.

If we depart form tradition, it is out of knowledge, not innocence.

I want to express the utmost intensity of the color, bring out the quality, make it expressive.

Relinquishing selfish wants, one is free to allow others to travel their own paths under the will of God. (18)

My eyes is fixed on faith in God alone.

Make your mark now.Make your mark today.Make your mark forever.

The gardener is the quintessential optimist: not only does he believe that the future will bear out the fruits of his efforts, he believes in the future.

I've got this thing where I always kind of diss the older stuff and favor the newer stuff. I mean, it's not just my thing; every artist or musician is like that, I guess.

The Catholics had been in the position of oppressors, and the Protestants of the oppressed

if you love me, love me now. dont hold yourself so badly until tears starts to mean nothing

We'll all grow up Meg, no pretending we won't.

You really have to go searching desperately to find any contemporary examples of good, old-fashioned runaway inflation.

If you don't like it, go somewhere else, to another universe where the rules are simpler.