A method of painting is a natural growth out of a need. I want to express my feelings rather than illustrate them. Technique is just a means of arriving at a statement.

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.

My insanity begged for a distraction. (Eric)

There are two problems in my life. The political ones are insoluble and the economic ones are incomprehensible.

Man cannot produce a single work without the assistance of the slow, assiduous, corrosive worm of thought.

Love is the greatest of all the commandments-all others hang upon it. It is our focus as followers of the living Christ. It is the one trait that, if developed, will most improve our lives.

Learn to love the sunrise and sunset, the beating of rain on the roof and windows, and the gentle fall of snow on a winter day.

God didn't call me to be successful, He called me to be faithful.

Hero worship has died with heroes, and if someone bows down today, it is to pick up something.

The industry is a menace to artists.

Life is. I am. Anything might happen.

Reason wishes that the judgement it gives be just; anger wishes that the judgement it has given seem to be just.