Decisions are being made a mile a minute while you're making the work, and it has to come out of experience and vision.

Color in color is felt at any and every place of the pictorial organization; in its immediacy - its particularity. Color must be felt throughout.

Alas, all too often, the dream turns into a mud puddle. I am left looking at a disaster. What to do! Keep working. I ask the Almighty for help. That frees me.

I work day and night without sleep. The paintings keep me fired up.

There is value in long years of obscurity, if one doesn't go insane or suicidal, in that, simply because nobody is looking, the habit of fooling around and trying things out gets ingrained.

I worked like a crazyman. I worked day and night, often days and nights at a time - without sleep. Gallons of coffee kept me awake; the paintings kept me fired up.

I think of color as being seen in and throughout, not solely on the surface.

Expect Nothing, Do Your Work, Celebrate.

What I would like in my painting is simply a spray of colour that hangs like a cloud, but does not lose its shape.

I think of painting as possessed by a structure... but a structure born of the flow of color feeling.

Just remember life is all an illusion.....it's your creation and you can dismantle it and re-create at will.

This is how you love: you do it in all the wrong ways, because that is the only way we know how.

One eye-witness is of more weight than ten hearsays.

I've seen so many period pieces in my life, I really enjoy them so much, a lot of my favorite movies are period pieces.

I'm quite content: although what I'm doing is far from being as I should like, I am complemented often enough all the same.

O be very sure That no man will learn anything at all, Unless he first will learn humility.

If you want to make a dangerous man your friend, let him do you a favor.

We are so presumptuous that we think we can separate our personal interest from that of humanity, and slander mankind without compromising ourselves.

Most of the people you look at in the early days of Harlem - the zoot suits, the music, the style of fashion, the vibrant colors - that's all influences from the south.

When you get an idea into your head you find it in everything.