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

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.

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.

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.

A translation is no translation, ’ he said, ‘unless it will give you the music of a poem along with the words of it.

when we're done, I'll be where the night never stopscradling a bruise that's shaped like youwondering why sleep never came to mewondering how I still dreamed

Learn to get in touch with silence within yourself and know that everything in life has a purpose.

Making art in America is about saving one's soul.

No rapper in the world from Jay-Z to Tupac to Biggie has 100 percent love on everything they do.

The home is the empire! There is no peace more delightful than one's own fireplace.

Wonder is the feeling of the philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.

Plant as many good thoughts as you can in each day.

Don't be afraid," i murmured. "We belong together.

No one can become fully aware of the very essence of another human being unless he loves him.