I arrived on earth in 1928. Born into a milieu of painters, I acquired my taste for painting with my mother's milk.

Blue has no dimensions, it is beyond dimensions.

The imagination is the vehicle of sensibility. Transported by the imagination, we attain life, life itself, which is absolute art.

At first there is nothing, then there is a profound nothingness, after that a blue profundity.

I did not like the nothing, and it is thus that I met the empty, the deep empty, the depth of the blue.

Hours of preparation for something that is excecuted, with extreme precision, in a few minutes. Just as with a judo throw.

Blue suggests the sea and sky, and they, after all, are in actual, visible nature what is most abstract.

To feel the soul without explaining it, without vocabulary, and to represent this sensation.

I have written my name on the far side of the sky.

Color is sensibility in material form, matter in its primordial state.

My paintings are only the ashes of my art

what is a journeywithout someone who wandersif sometimes a pairis made of two

I’m sorry and I believe in you and I’ll always be near you, protecting you, and I will never leave you, I’ll be curled around your heart for the rest of your life.

I have no precise idea of who makes up my readership. I'm surprised when I discover people have read my poems at all.

The cry of a young raven is nothing but the natural cry of a creature, but your cry, if it be sincere, is the result of a work of grace in your heart.

Hey, don't stick that tongue out, unless you're gonna use it.

Musicians exist independent of any of the marketing terms or the categorization.

I'm extremely compassionate, loving, all of those warm fuzzy things, but the outer shell doesn't project that all the time.

Democracy, the practice of self-government, is a covenant among free men to respect the rights and liberties of their fellows.

I wanted to completely honor The REV and pay tribute to him and carry on the legacy that he intended with this record.

People in bigger towns are very aware of their surroundings. The people in the smaller markets, they will show up with flip-flops and shorts and just kind of already have a buzz on.