Painting is about the beauty of space and the power of containment.

Color is born of the interpenetration of light and dark.

The personal lives of painters are tragic and inevitable and do not explain the artist. For the artist is his work and no longer human.

An increase in light gives an increase in darkness.

Every real nation is a people of a common blood and descended from the same ancestors. A nation - from the Latin word meaning to be born - can have no other meaning.

Come see the cherry trees of a water constellationand the round key of the rapid universe, come touch the fire of instantaneous blue, come before its petals are consumed.

It circulated for five years through the halls of fifteen publishers and finally ended up with Vanguard Press which as you can see is rather deep into the alphabet.

I love to be alone, and I did as a child as well, especially if I was outside.

Money means in a thousand minds a thousand subtly different, roughly similar, systems of images, associations, suggestions and impulses.

I don't make promises, I promise results.

When Paris sneezes, Europe catches a cold.

In a poem the words should be as pleasing to the ear as the meaning is to the mind.

I worry that if whatever pops into your head at any instant immediately goes online, you lose the crucial time for your thoughts to simmer and evolve and build up nuance, depth and empathy.

It is not half so important to know as to feel.

Put anger aside. It is not a solution. Patience and love is a solution. With compassion and action, together we can end slavery.