As soon as you set yourself up in the position of transferring paint from one place to another, your whole culture invades you. It tells you all about the history of art.

The act, the doing, the taking up of paint and putting it down - the immediate impact upon your psyche or soul that occurs when you do that - has so much danger in it.

Each of us has a universal within us. There's always that making of parts - but it doesn't touch the universal within you.

Pulling yourself up again is the most important part of your life. Getting out of the bottom that you put everything into - yourself!

As long as you can change paint, you don't change. For you to change - for paint to do something to you - paint must stay constant.

You always have the memory of the bottom, and fear of the bottom. And when you start going to the bottom you panic.

You have to give in to what the paint says... You have to do what it's telling you to do.

As soon as you see what you're looking at you have a name for it. You don't see it. The whole process of your thinking is not to see. You overcome sight by thinking.

It was told in the Bible. A man fell. He bit into knowledge and fell... How do you fall without falling completely? What do you bring as knowledge to a blank canvas? How do you begin?

The religions never wanted an art where you paint only what you see.

I painted myself out of my painting.

God knows we all have to at least try to justify our behavior so we don't feel too guilty about it later.

Science is simply common sense at its best - that is rigidly accurate in observation and merciless to fallacy in logic.

On days when the sky is grey, the sun has not disappeared forever.

I don't think marriages break up because of what you do to each other. They break up because of what you must become in order to stay in them.

Taste is the next gift to genius.

We are becoming the servants in thought, as in action of the machine we have created to serve us.

Christy Turlington is my idol. She really is. She's a gorgeous woman inside and out. I admire her work in the charity field. She's just been able to balance it all - and gracefully, as well.

You can't make the other fellow feel important in your presence if you secretly feel that he is a nobody

It might be pardonable to refuse to defend some men, but to defend them negligently is nothing short of criminal.

Everyone's a millionaire where promises are concerned.