Each painting has its own way of evolving. When the painting is finished, the subject reveals itself.

It is the mysterious that I love in painting. It is the stillness and the silence. I want my pictures to take effect very slowly, to obsess and to haunt.

One hundred artists introduce us to one hundred worlds.

As for the subject matter in my painting.. ..it is very often an incidental thing in the background, elusive and unclear, that really stirred me.

There is always an unconscious collaboration among artists.. ..the artist who imagine himself a Robinson Crusoe is either a primitive or a fool.

The eye seems to be responding to something living.

One can begin a picture and carry it through and stop it and do nothing about the title at all.

In the beginning I drew and painted from nature in order to know her. Then later, only to fall under her spell. And today, to let her mirror my thoughts and feelings.

I kept.. ..returning to the (ancient Roman) wall paintings with their veiled melancholy and elegant plasticity.

The large gray spiked form rising from the bottom of the picture is to me the symbol of death and ruin. And finally the black ovoid form is the symbol of fire, lava and destruction.

I can not evolve any concrete theory about painting.

I always notice flowers.

The man who fails because he aims astray or because he does not aim at all is to be found everywhere.

Social media has taken over in America to such an extreme that to get my own kids to look back a week in their history is a miracle, let alone 100 years.

King Crimson is never easy; it's challenging. That's why I like it.

A man had better starve at once than lose his innocence in the process of getting his bread.

We can easily become loyal to our suffering … but it's not the end of the path.

I’d heard Bones threaten to beat someone with their own limb before, but I’d always assumed that was a figure of speech. Apparently not.

I try to act out of faith.

Don't punish yourself for what others have done to you. You're better than them. You're better than you think.

Zen martini: A martini with no vermouth at all. And no gin, either.