Every time I've moved, my work has changed radically.

There is no reason not to consider the world as one gigantic painting.

You begin with the possibilities of the material.

I don't really trust ideas - especially good ones... Rather, I put my trust in the materials that confront me, because they put me in touch with the unknown.

The only thing that I could get with chance, and I never was able to use it, was that I would end up with something quite geometric or the spirit that I was interested in, indulging in, was gone.

It is neither Art for Art, nor Art against Art. I am for Art, but for Art that has nothing to do with Art. Art has everything to do with life, but it has nothing to do with Art.

I've not been cursed with talent, which could be a great inhibitor.

An empty canvas is full.

The artist's job is to be a witness to his time in history.

I don't think of myself as making art. I do what I do because I want to, because painting is the best way I've found to get along with myself.

Even at this late date, I go into my studio, and I think 'Is this going to be it? Is it the end?' You see, nearly everything terrorizes me. When an artist loses that terror, he's through.

Dreams were the first movies.

Women are books, and men the readers be.

Another characteristic of mathematical thought is that it can have no success where it cannot generalize.

I don't call myself a singer, I'm a voice, lent to music

Feelings and thoughts do not define who we are; they are just part of the weather of our inner world.

It is not hard for any man who hath a Bible in his hand to borrow good words and holy sayings in abundance; but to make them his own is a work of grace only from above.

The FBI has always supported big business and big government.

A good forgettery is a happier possession than a good memory.

Everything in food works together to create health or disease.

Yes, I am influenced by everbody. But every time I put my hands in my pockets I find someone else's fingers there.