I continue to get further away from the usual painter's tools such as easel, palette, brushes, etc.

Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.

The secret of success is… to be fully awake to everything about you.

If people would just look at the paintings, I don't think they would have any trouble enjoying them. It's like looking at a bed of flowers, you don't tear your hair out over what it means.

Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you. There was a reviewer a while back who wrote that my pictures didn't have any beginning or any end. He didn't mean it as a compliment, but it was.

Art is coming face to face with yourself.

There is no accident, just as there is no beginning and no end.

Painting is no problem. The problem is what to do when you're not painting.

It doesn't matter how the paint is put on, as long as something is said.

The modern artist is working with space and time, and expressing his feelings rather than illustrating.

Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you.

Words are things. The words he is in possession of he cannot be deprived of. Their authority transcends his ignorance of their meaning.

It is not you as the ego who moves through life, but that life flows before you, and you are the immutable awareness containing it all.

The test of mountain-top experiences, of mysticism, of visions of God and of solitariness is when you are “in the soup” of actual circumstances.

Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.

You have to try, you have to try everything you can.

Drunken behavior will not be tolerated, except by those who are being hilarious.

Hee that hath patience hath fatt thrushes for a farthing.

Kizzy wanted it all so bad her soul leaned half out of her body hungering after it, and that was what drove the goblins wild, her soul hanging out there like an untucked shirt.

I was elated, ecstatic and extremely surprised that we were successful.

When one has a crisis of faith it means one is struck by the realisation than one has been pretending know things that one doesn't know.