When I'm painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing. It's only after a get acquainted period that I see what I've been about. I've no fears about making changes for the painting has a life of its own.

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.

Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he is buying.

Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

With every step of our lives we enter into the middle of some story which we are certain to misunderstand.

Even in animals there exists the spirit of their sires.

My father was somewhat to the right of Genghis Khan.

I took piano lessons when I was like 5 or 6 but that was a long time ago. I stopped when I was 13.

I'm here to tell you that the path to peace is right there, when you want to get away.

[Dirk Gently] just doesn't understand social cues.

Though I'm a rogue in talking upon Painting & Love I can be serious and honest upon any subject thoroughly pleasing to me.

Friends are like Lighthouses, with the sources of light coming from their hearts.