The religions never wanted an art where you paint only what you see.

The act, the doing, the taking up of paint and putting it down - the immediate impact upon your psyche or soul that occurs when you do that - has so much danger in it.

Each of us has a universal within us. There's always that making of parts - but it doesn't touch the universal within you.

As soon as you set yourself up in the position of transferring paint from one place to another, your whole culture invades you. It tells you all about the history of art.

Pulling yourself up again is the most important part of your life. Getting out of the bottom that you put everything into - yourself!

As long as you can change paint, you don't change. For you to change - for paint to do something to you - paint must stay constant.

You always have the memory of the bottom, and fear of the bottom. And when you start going to the bottom you panic.

You have to give in to what the paint says... You have to do what it's telling you to do.

As soon as you see what you're looking at you have a name for it. You don't see it. The whole process of your thinking is not to see. You overcome sight by thinking.

It was told in the Bible. A man fell. He bit into knowledge and fell... How do you fall without falling completely? What do you bring as knowledge to a blank canvas? How do you begin?

I painted myself out of my painting.

May you find solace & be comforted by love’s inner warmth, and glow.

Good luck is abnormalbad luck is common

Mine is studying script and being very academic and trying to be important.

There the poor have another advantage ... for they may defy not only death, but every loss by sea or land, for they have nothing to lose.

The specific course you decide upon is, within certain parameters, less important than the vigor with which you execute it.

All things being equal, people want to do business with their friends.

Civilizations proceed from the heart rather than from the head.

There's a terrible truth for many women in the picture business: Aging typically takes its toll and means fewer and less desirable roles.

There are days when you need someone who just wants to be your sunshine and not the air you breathe.

If you want to get along, go along.