It's when you've found out how to do certain things, that it's time to stop doing them, because what's missing is that you're not including the risk.

There is no reason not to consider the world as one gigantic painting.

You begin with the possibilities of the material.

I don't really trust ideas - especially good ones... Rather, I put my trust in the materials that confront me, because they put me in touch with the unknown.

The only thing that I could get with chance, and I never was able to use it, was that I would end up with something quite geometric or the spirit that I was interested in, indulging in, was gone.

It is neither Art for Art, nor Art against Art. I am for Art, but for Art that has nothing to do with Art. Art has everything to do with life, but it has nothing to do with Art.

I've not been cursed with talent, which could be a great inhibitor.

An empty canvas is full.

The artist's job is to be a witness to his time in history.

I don't think of myself as making art. I do what I do because I want to, because painting is the best way I've found to get along with myself.

Even at this late date, I go into my studio, and I think 'Is this going to be it? Is it the end?' You see, nearly everything terrorizes me. When an artist loses that terror, he's through.

There’s been time this whole time. You can’t kill time with your heart. Everything takes time.

Noble leaders choose: wisdom over wealth, knowledge over fame, understanding over honor, virtue over titles, and people over power.

There is strong shadow where there is much light.

What exactly did you expect me to do? I told The Boss what you said, but he’s not going to budge. Nobody gets dental.

If it's working keep doing it. If it's not working stop doing it. If you don't know what to do don't do anything.

It's like Samson and Delilah: watch your back, because trouble could be the person you're sleeping with.

March is the month God created to show people who don't drink what a hangover is like.

The man who raises a fist has run out of ideas.

Hope is not something you can just place in your back pocket or put your fingers around – it’s the belief in a world that has yet to exist.

You know what really offers you satisfaction? Offering others what you have to give.