For a painter as abstract as myself, the collages offer a way of incorporating bits of the everyday world into pictures.

Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it.

Art is an experience, not an object.

Walk on a rainbow trail; walk on a trail of song, and all about you will be beauty. There is a way out of every dark mist, over a rainbow trail.

Wherever art appears, life disappears.

Without ethical consciousness, a painter is only a decorator.

Painting is a medium in which the mind can actualize itself; it is a medium of thought. Thus painting, like music, tends to become its own content.

If one were to ask a painter what he felt about anything, his just response - though he seldom makes it - would be to paint it, and in painting, to find out.

Painting that does not radiate feeling is not worth looking at. The deepest-and rarest-of grown-up pleasures is true feeling.

The main thing is not to be dead.

It's not that the creative act and the critical act are simultaneous. It's more like you blurt something out and then analyze it.

Fame you'll be famous, as famous as can be, with everyone watching you win on TV, Except when they don't because sometimes they won't..

Maybe love was meant to save us from ourselves.

He is the one pocket of warmth in a sea of ice.

I didn't wait to see her ship go off, because partings are stupid things and best got over quickly

Kil your positive attitudes and you'll kill your chances of succeeding in life.

Prison is an expensive way of making bad people worse.

We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than only freedom can make security more secure.

Nature herself makes the wise man rich.

There are two things nobody should ever have to watch being made, sausage and laws.

Let us not wonder if something happens which never was before, or if something doth not appear among us with which the ancients were acquainted.