Whether or not the artist can fulfill a social function is a question that remains unanswered.

The aggregate energy of all the great masters of the past and those of the present communicates the greatest possibilities of art. It is from this position that the artist attains colossal strength.

There are different paths that one can pursue as a painter. I work with the thesis that I have not as yet reached my goal. This engagement is the necessary basis from which I plan new paintings.

every time this happensI see my fathermy brothermy would be sonI see myselfstop killing us

The Lord is my shepherdI shall not want him for longHe maketh me to lie down in green pasturesand there are no green pasturesHe leadeth me beside still watersand still waters run deep

After ten pages I felt that Nietzsche was reading me, not I him.

As an artist I would like to eliminate the symbolic pretty much, for black is interesting not as a color but as a non-color and as the absence of color.

The music is notated first, the text follows. I might have to wait until the right kind of text or form arises. I often see the poems as “scores.”

Marriages may come and go, but the game must go on.

The more our hearts and minds are turned to assisting others less fortunate than we, the more we will avoid the spiritually cankering effects that result from greed, selfishness and overindulgence.

I want to demystify what it means to leave a legacy for young people.

Every word that is unnecessary only pours over the side of a brimming mind.

The only nonpartisan people are those who are dead.