Painting relates to both art and life. Neither can be made - I try to act in the gap.

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 is no such thing as an “independent artist”. All artists are essentially co-dependent of the audience.

I never say I work in television, I say I get to work in television.

I plan to surf more - learn the way of the wave.

When the Spirit of God moves within us, we must move with Him or be miserable.

Nothing a housewife does is of value in capitalist terms because it does not take place on the market and therefore does not contribute to the Gross National Product.

The artist Nature often achieves greatest effect when not working with a full palette.

All battles are fought by scared men who'd rather be some place else.

Cannibalism is a radical but realistic solution to the problem of overpopulation.

People say you don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone, but the truth is you just never thought you’d ever lose it.

In England, David and I are big fish in a small pond. But in L.A., we are tiny, tiny, tiny fish in a big pond.