Unlike the expressionists, I have never been interested in renewing the world through the vehicle of art.

The artist is not responsible to any one. His social role is asocial... his only responsibility consists in an attitude to the work he does.

What counts most is finding new ways to get the world down in paint on my own terms.

I begin with an idea, but as I work, the picture takes over. Then there is the struggle between the idea I preconceived... and the picture that fights for its own life.

Women don't paint very well. It's a fact. There are, of course, exceptions. Agnes Martin or, from the past, Paula Modersohn-Becker.

An object painted upside down is suitable for painting because it is unsuitable as an object.

I had always loved expressionist painting, like every European. In fact I admired it all the more because these were precisely the paintings despised by my father's generation.

Art is visceral and vulgar - it's an eruption.

I hang my work upside down to emphasize surface.

The reality is the picture, it is most certainly not in the picture.

What I could never escape was Germany, and being German.

The divinity you seek is born with you.

Thinking over this thought, this whole thinking makes no sense.

There is no passion so much transports the sincerity of judgement as doth anger.

My commitment to gender equality is rooted in the quintessentially American principle of equal justice under law.

What makes it all worthwhile is we just play for the sheer enjoyment of entertaining people and... make our families and the team we played on and the people watching, proud of what we did.

In principle the great religions of the world do not differ as much as they appear to.

I love you, Ella May and nothing will ever change that. You can push me away -run away – and I will still love you.

That good sense which nature affords us is preferable to most of the knowledge that we can acquire.

There's a lot that you can be And ain't it a pity But its alright to smile back at me

Legalism is looking to something besides Jesus Christ in order to be acceptable and clean before God.