The only way an artist can communicate with the world at large is on the level of feeling.

I am isolated as an artist, not as a person.

You keep on balancing and balancing and balancing until the picture wins, because then the subject's turned into the picture.

When I finish a painting, it usually looks as surprising to me as to anyone else.

I want my pictures to be things. I want them to be made up of marks that are physically and individually self-sufficient.

A lot of people... are afraid of pictures which have visible emotions in them. They feel calmer in front of pictures which are placid.

I think words come between the spectator and the picture.

Passion lies between one mark and the next, and also within all of them.

Collecting has been my great extravagance. It's a way of being. I collect for the same reason that I eat too much-I'm one of nature's shoppers.

I'm vulnerable to criticism. Any artist is, because you work alone in your studio and, until recently, critics were the only way you'd get any feedback.

To be a painter now is to be part of a very small, endangered species.

You ought to recognise your special talent, for your specific purpose.

We judge. We do it every single day. We have forgotten to differentiate between ' A simple observation with no results' and 'Analyze to yield

I went on a Hot Pocket diet where I ate two Hot Pockets every four hours. I only had the pepperoni pizza flavour. I didn't go anywhere near the cheeseburger macaroni.

Environmental spending creates jobs in engineering, manufacturing, construction, materials, operations and maintenance.

Gluttony is wrong. It's wasteful.

I will leave no memoirs.

sunshine is just beyond the clouds" Carl Joesph Gunner

All great art originates from the innocent child within us expressing itself through the wisdom, experience and skill of an adult.

Thug Life to me is dead.

It is from the middle class that writers spring, because, it is in the middle class only that the practice of writing is as natural and habitual as hoeing a field or building a house.