All art is failure. How one fails is a different matter.

When you feel concentrated within the intensity of making paintings, you know exactly what you are doing.

Life is politics, basically, but you don't just go to a gallery and put the words 'art' and 'politics' on the wall.

It is not important to convince people; they should convince themselves, they should look with their own eyes.

An artwork should point in more than one direction, not be this sort of placating, self-demonstrating, witnessing element.

Every painting has a weakness and a breaking point, where the essence of a painting lies. In my case it is never in the centre.

When critics or art historians or curators ask me why I still paint, the answer is that I am not naive.

Did I miss the part where we were in a relationship?

I am who I am and always shall be.

I still say, 'Shoot for the moon; you might get there.'

I like to think that I get better and better as a writer, but it seems pretty easy to me to slip on disguises of various people.

Talking is something you can't do judiciously unless you keep in practice.

I had a normal childhood. There were women, but it wasn't like Hefner's Playboy Mansion. If it was, I'd still be living at home!

Hee looseth nothing, that looseth not God.

You're not going to be great at everything. Surround yourself with people that can compliment you so you can work together and then everybody can be successful.

The Quaker upbringing was not strict, but it was frugal. Extremely frugal. One was always encouraged to give away ones worldly goods.

Music, when soft voices die Vibrates in the memory.