Just as with the quartet, each part of a painting is telling a different story.

With monochrome painting... the idiosyncrasy of the work, its difference, its expression, lies in shape.

My work is not repetition. It is an exploration.

I'm interested in the movement of the eyes across the painting.

In a way, the blank canvas... represents the infinity of trying to use color to express emotions - to assign a linguistic function to color.

Anything is of course inexhaustible, because at each moment the brain has a different pattern to construct.

Seeing is looking at something in saturation. But we tend to look at something for, say, 1/30 of a second.

The question of painting is bound up with epistemology, with the engagement of the viewer, with what the viewer may learn.

It's impossible to just localize your perceptions - because the stimuli come from both eyes.

The poor will will provide you with what they don't have and what you need. The rich will give you what they have and what you want.

Logic only gives man what he needs, ” he stammered. “Magic gives him what he wants.

Never base motivation or fear, entirely.

Once upon a time I was falling in love, now I'm only falling apart.

When there is nothing left to hide, there is nothing left to seek.

I'm not against White writers writing about Blacks as long as they are as objective as say James McPherson writing about an Irish American janitor in his brilliant short story "Gold Coast."

I'm a big toy collector. I've been slowing down because my money's been tight, but I collect toys, too.

To know, to esteem, to love,-and then to part, Makes up life's tale to many a feeling heart.

I'm more cautious about what I write.

In terms of 'Seinfeld', I think there's lot of reality in a show that's supposed to be about nothing.