Reality must be expressed by a physical symbol.

Sitting on the floor of a room in Japan, looking out on a small garden with flowers blooming and dragonflies hovering in space, I suddenly felt as if I had been too long above my boots.

On pavements and the bark of trees I have found whole worlds.

I believe that painting should come through the avenues of meditation rather than the canals of action.

The search for an equilibrium is essential for the artist, to be as aware of inner space as he is of outer space.

I am accused often of too much experimentation.., but what else should I do when all other factors of man are in the same condition. I thrust forward into space as science and the rest do.

An artist must find his expression closely linked to his individual experience or else follow in the old grooves resulting in lifeless forms.

We all feel a separateness; we wish that a drop of water would soften our ego; the world needs a common conscience: agreement... we must concentrate outside ourselves.

At a time when experimentation expresses itself in all forms of life, search becomes the only valid expression of the spirit.

According to one critic, my works looked like scraped billboards. I went to look at the billboards and decided that more billboards should be scraped.

We look at the mountain to see the painting, then we look at the painting to see the mountain.

One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.

Humans are not a commodity, nor is our humanity. Fight to save the lives of those who can not save themselves, and in turn, you will have saved your soul.

There is no such thing as inner peace there is only nervousness and death.

Poetry is a domestic art, most itself when most at home.

When my body gets so overexerted with energy, I just keep going and going.

A woman is more than the sum of her parts.

I have great faith in the people of Montana; they can't be bought.

The fool is like those people who think themselves rich with little.

When other boys dreamt of going to the moon or becoming doctors, I wanted to be a designer.

I just look like someone with a long face. Not just A. P. McCoy himself, but some of the horses he rides.