When I don't feel in the mood for painting I go to the movies for a week or more. I go on a regular movie binge!

Great art is the outward expression of an inner life in the artist, and this inner life will result in his personal vision of the world.

If you could say it in words there would be no reason to paint.

No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination.

More of me comes out when I improvise.

The only quality that endures in art is a personal vision of the world. Methods are transient: personality is enduring.

I guess I'm not very human. All I really want to do is paint light on the side of a house.

It's (the lack of communication between the people in his paintings, ed.) probably a reflection of my own, if I may say, loneliness. I don't know. It could be the whole human condition.

To me the most important thing is the sense of going on. You know how beautiful things are when you're traveling.

In general it can be said that a nation's art is greatest when it most reflects the character of its people.

There is a sort of elation about sunlight on the upper part of a house.

Some things are destined to be -- it just takes us a couple of triesto get there.

After all, it's one thing to run away when someone's chasing you. It's entirely another to be running all alone.

Nothing has a greater influence over your life than your thoughts rather they are negative or positive.

You get too old to lose. When you were a young guy, you bounced back from losses.

It is not enough to know what is good: you must be able to do it.

We start dying when we have nothing worth living for. And we don't really start living until we find something worth dying for

When you have lost people like I lost my birth mom at a young age and you remember the whole process of losing her, you want to grab on to something that makes you whole.

Hopefully kids will look at me and see that your dreams can come true.

Skins may differ, but affection Dwells in white and black the same.

All that is good is not embodied in the law; and all that is evil is not proscribed by the law. A well-disciplined society needs few laws; but it needs strong mores.