When I make a representation of something, this, too, is an analogy to what exists; I make an effort to get a grip on the thing by depicting it.

I don't create blurs. Blurring is not the most important thing; nor is it an identity tag for my pictures.

Art is the highest form of hope.

It is a danger to wait around for an idea to occur to you. You have to find the idea.

A lot of different things had to come together over the years, accumulated experiences of a general and personal nature, before the idea and the decision were developed and then carried out.

I like everything that has no style: dictionaries, photographs, nature, myself and my paintings. (Because style is violent, and I am not violent.)

I would like to try to understand what is. We know very little, and I am trying to do it by creating analogies. Almost every work of art is an analogy.

All photographs are far more important than any painting.

Picturing things, taking a view, is what makes us human; art is making sense and giving shape to that sense. It is like the religious search for God.

I want pictorial content without sentiment, but I want it as human as possible

Abstract pictures are fictive models, because they make visible a reality that we can neither see nor describe, but whose existence we can postulate.

The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.

The best of today lays a great foundation for tomorrow.

Perhaps I am a rose-picker and a breeze-sniffer.

Love from one being to another can only be that two solitudes come nearer recognize and protect and comfort each other.

Damon Runyon. A day-coach boy in a parlor car seat.

There are strong people who aren't able to climb. It's about reading the rock, knowing how to position your body and having the tenacity to not let go.

On the strength of his literary output alone... any woman of sense would decline to tackle D.H. Lawrence at 1,000 pounds a night.

One must turn the tongue seven times in the mouth before speaking.

I do, and I hunt. I like small horses best. They're like small men. They have more to prove so they take all the more risks and jump higher and faster than all the rest.

You have enemies? Why, it is the story of every man who has done a great deed or created a new idea.