Aesthetics is for the artist like ornithology is for the birds.

I prefer to leave the paintings to speak for themselves.

When painters feel the need to make a shift toward self-discovery, they turn to black and white for a time.

Sculpture is what you bump into when you back up to see a painting.

Painting, like passion, is a living voice, which, when I hear it, I must let it speak, unfettered.

A painter is a choreographer of space.

I hope that my painting has the impact of giving someone, as it did me, the feeling of his own totality, of his own separateness, of his own individuality.

It is our function as artists to make the spectator see the world our way not his way.

The impulse of modern art was this desire to destroy beauty.

Any art worthy of its name should address 'life', 'man', 'nature', 'death' and 'tragedy'.

I know that it is impossible to talk about my work. And since it's impossible for me or anybody else to talk about my work, I feel I might as well talk about it.

Our education system often teaches us how to conform more than how to wonder and venture.

We spend so little time in the present moment that it's anything but ordinary.

I won't feel that I failed. I'll be a little disappointed in the NFL.

The video camera dominates art. It's a bore, it makes everything look a bit the same. If you look at things with a pencil and paper in your hand, you are going to see far more.

That thou remember them, some claim as debt; I think it mercy, if thou wilt forget.

The mind may be exhausted, but the language of the heart is inexhaustible.

The high point of your life was when you knocked me down

It felt really good to kind of find my voice and say stuff, and to be funny, hopefully.

When it comes down to it, it really is the little things that count most.

Oh what's love got to do, got to do with it What's love but a second hand emotion What's love got to do, got to do with it Who needs a heart When a heart can be broken