One works without thinking how to work.

As one gets older one sees many more paths that could be taken. Artists sense within their own work that kind of swelling of possibilities, which may seem a freedom or a confusion.

Bend color names which should be made of neon or copper tubing. Place an object on a surface - trace the object - then bend the object - leaving some part of it attached.

To be an artist you have to give up everything, including the desire to be a good artist.

Take an object. Do something to it. Do something else to it.

One night I dreamed that I painted a large American flag, and the next morning I got up and I went out and bought the materials to begin it.

When something is new to us, we treat it as an experience. We feel that our senses are awake and clear. We are alive.

I assumed that everything would lead to complete failure, but I decided that didn't matter – that would be my life.

It's simple, you just take something and do something to it, and then do something else to it. Keep doing this, and pretty soon you've got something.

Art is either a complaint or appeasement.

I have no ideas about what the paintings imply about the world. I don't think that's a painter's business. He just paints paintings without a conscious reason.

I love Jesus Christ!

We... have created a greater material wealth than any other society in the history of the human race. Yet we have managed to kill off millions of our population in an arrangement which we call "war.

It's amazing what happens when you stick yourself in a place and let things take their more or less natural course.

I'm alright with who I am and I don't feel that I need to be better.

It's the same in real life: Notorious murderers get off scot-free and live happily all their lives, while good people die - sometimes the very best people. That's the way of the world.

It was so dry in Saskatchewan during the Depression that the trees were chasing the dogs.

I forgot how much I loved going to class, actually. But I also forgot what having school homework feels like: stressful!

Oddly, the meanings of books are defined for me much more by their beginnings and middles than they are by their endings.

The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.

The real satisfaction from mathematics is in learning from others and sharing with others.