My painting does not come from the easel.

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.

You’ll see, there are a million ways to kill off the soft parts of yourself.

When you please others in hopes of being accepted, you lose you self-worth in the process.

But it is a miracle that a dead man should come to life; because that has never been observed in any age or country.

Look. Listen. Learn. Stay open. Your destiny is awaiting you.

I'm in the wrong racket if I didn't want a public life.

Anybody with any sense knows the whole solar system will go up like a celluloid collar by-and-by.

He who can properly define and divide is to be considered a god.

It is no advantage to be near the light if the eyes are closed.

I started playing the piano when I was about two and got a scholarship to the Peabody Conservatory of Music in Baltimore when I was five. But I left when I was 11.