You paint the way you have to in order to give. That's life itself, and someone will look and say it is the product of knowing, but it has nothing to do with knowing, it has to do with giving.

People sometimes think I take a white canvas and paint a black sign on it,but this is not true.I paint the white as well as the black and the white is just as important.

I paint not the things I see but the feelings they arouse in me.

The final test of a painting, theirs, mine, any other, is: do the painter's emotions come across?

If I feel a painting I'm working on doesn't have imagery or emotion, I paint it out and work over it until it does.

Half the world wants to be like Thoreau worrying about the noise of traffic on the way up to Boston; the other half use up their lives being part of that noise. I like the second half.

If you're a painter, you're not alone. There's no way to be alone.

You instinctively like what you can't do.

To be right is the most terrific personal state that nobody is interested in.

The nature of anguish is translated into different forms.

He who has never imitated anyone is known as one with intelligence.

A person’s irregular surfaces are what make us interesting.

Do I hear a challenge?” she whispers, “Oh, Carlos. You know I can’t resist a challenge.

Creative activity is not a superimposed, extraneous task against which the body, or brain protests, but an orchestration of ... joyful doing.

I don't want to get into an insult fight with Donald Trump.

Don't worry about your father. He's a perfectly contented, self-sufficient zombie.

We can't create a shift in normalised attitudes and behaviours without everybody on board, so not being sexist isn't enough - get stuck in and start tackling sexism too.

America is still a free country - nobody is saying it isn't - but we accept that, in the face of discernible risk, or even imaginable risk, the government has an obligation to step in and save us.

But in the end, fighting for a love that was already gone felt like trying to live in the ruins of a lost city.

"We're staying together," he promised. "You're not getting away from me. Never again."