It is the mysterious that I love in painting. It is the stillness and the silence. I want my pictures to take effect very slowly, to obsess and to haunt.

Each painting has its own way of evolving. When the painting is finished, the subject reveals itself.

One hundred artists introduce us to one hundred worlds.

As for the subject matter in my painting.. ..it is very often an incidental thing in the background, elusive and unclear, that really stirred me.

There is always an unconscious collaboration among artists.. ..the artist who imagine himself a Robinson Crusoe is either a primitive or a fool.

The eye seems to be responding to something living.

One can begin a picture and carry it through and stop it and do nothing about the title at all.

In the beginning I drew and painted from nature in order to know her. Then later, only to fall under her spell. And today, to let her mirror my thoughts and feelings.

I kept.. ..returning to the (ancient Roman) wall paintings with their veiled melancholy and elegant plasticity.

The large gray spiked form rising from the bottom of the picture is to me the symbol of death and ruin. And finally the black ovoid form is the symbol of fire, lava and destruction.

I can not evolve any concrete theory about painting.

Don't compete with your friends to win a date with few beautiful girls, but compete to win few beautiful goals.

I feel great. I'm right there for the top two. I know my long is a very strong program and I've had lots of success with it, so I feel confident going into the long. Just fix up that loop.

I followed Taylor everywhere. I was always trying to catch up after him or go with him.

Where Labor stands idle ... there is a demonstrated deficiency, not of Capital, but of brains.

When I'm on the court, I feel like I'm in my element.

The media is comparable to government-probably passes government in raw power.

The essential challenge is to transform the isolation and self-interest within our communities into connectedness and caring for the whole.

Remember God so much that you are forgotten. Let the caller and the called disappear; be lost in the Call.

When I'm not working, I like to play golf.

In our time all it takes for evil to flourish is for a few good men to be a little wrong and have a great deal of power, and for the vast majority of their fellow citizens to remain indifferent.