It [abstract art] should be enjoyed just as music is enjoyed after a while you may like it or you may not.

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.

By being beautiful and kind you are given favored status and opportunity in life.

I know you. Perversity is your aphrodisiac.

With production alone as the goal, industry in North America was dominated by the assembly line, standardization for mass consumption.

Early on, I used to think it was really cool and macho to jump out of the car and tackle the bad guy. But then when you see the stunts in the movie, you realize it could've been a lady in a poncho.

I have never really done any teaching and maybe I should have done. I am not power-mad enough.

Creativity is the ability to look at the ordinary and see the extraordinary.

The world is so full of simpletons and madmen, that one need not seek them in a madhouse.

I wanted to be in a punk band before I had even heard any punk music.

What fiction could match - in drama or suspense - man's first walk on the Moon?

I'd like to someday see myself married to my true love and starting a big family, and at the same time still having an artistic job.