When I am painting I have a general notion as to what I am about. I can control the flow of paint: there is no accident.

Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.

The secret of success is… to be fully awake to everything about you.

If people would just look at the paintings, I don't think they would have any trouble enjoying them. It's like looking at a bed of flowers, you don't tear your hair out over what it means.

Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you. There was a reviewer a while back who wrote that my pictures didn't have any beginning or any end. He didn't mean it as a compliment, but it was.

Art is coming face to face with yourself.

There is no accident, just as there is no beginning and no end.

Painting is no problem. The problem is what to do when you're not painting.

It doesn't matter how the paint is put on, as long as something is said.

The modern artist is working with space and time, and expressing his feelings rather than illustrating.

Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you.

Annual planning cycles doom you to short term fixes for long term problems

Every good relationship, especially marriage, is based on respect. If it's not based on respect, nothing that appears to be good will last very long.

And why not death rather than living torment? To die is to be banish'd from myself And Silvia is myself: banish'd from her Is self from self: a deadly banishment!

When we Christians behave badly, or fail to behave well, we are making Christianity unbelievable to the outside world

The worst mistake is to have the best ladder and the wrong wall.

Passionate love is a quenchless thirst.

People ask if I hate my opponents; I don't. I love them. They are the ones that actually make me bring the best I have.

I was so ugly my parents had to hang a pork chop around my neck to get the dog to play with me.

Whoever is the first to cry "Stop the thief" is the one who is guilty.