I know that it is impossible to talk about my work. And since it's impossible for me or anybody else to talk about my work, I feel I might as well talk about it.

I prefer to leave the paintings to speak for themselves.

When painters feel the need to make a shift toward self-discovery, they turn to black and white for a time.

Aesthetics is for the artist like ornithology is for the birds.

Sculpture is what you bump into when you back up to see a painting.

Painting, like passion, is a living voice, which, when I hear it, I must let it speak, unfettered.

A painter is a choreographer of space.

I hope that my painting has the impact of giving someone, as it did me, the feeling of his own totality, of his own separateness, of his own individuality.

It is our function as artists to make the spectator see the world our way not his way.

The impulse of modern art was this desire to destroy beauty.

Any art worthy of its name should address 'life', 'man', 'nature', 'death' and 'tragedy'.

I was born in the age of "alas".

My whole life has been basically trying to find intelligent students or, you know, highly motivated students and giving them an opportunity to do good science.

Her name was Maude and she drank whisky all day from a fruit jar under the counter.

Ownership is not a general feature of our society, determining its character. On the contrary, dependence on a precarious wage at the will of others is the general feature of our society.

Mind your P's and Q's.

The contemporary Christian mind is starved, and as a result we have small, impoverished souls.

The projects I look for to produce or direct would not be ones in which I would want to act.

Dracula isn't just another vampire show. It's something entirely different that I personally feel I've never seen on American TV before.

To find someone who will love you for no reason, and to shower that person with reasons, that is the ultimate happiness.

The secret of being more vitally alive is to be more aware. Starting today, from this moment, become aware of awareness!