The eye seems to be responding to something living.

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

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.

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.

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.

Always be courageous and strong, and don't fear.

Here is my secret. It is very simple: one sees well only with the heart. The essential is invisible to the eyes.

I still stay in touch with Elinor Donahue. I've known Elinor since she was 14-years-old.

I have joined the political arena so that the powerful can no longer beat up on people who cannot defend themselves.

I'm never saying never - I'm saying I'm not about to.

Pay heed to the tales of old wives. It may well be that they alone keep in memory what it was once needful for the wise to know.

Being a mod is more of a sensibility than a style.

God pays twice as much attention on Christmas, like the media when a white kid goes missing.

There are three types of chemotherapy that work for cancer. Testicular, like Lance Armstrong. Childhood leukemia, they're doing great things. And lymphoma and non-Hodgkin's.

Those who are too idle to read, save for the purpose of amusement, may in these works acquire some acquaintance with history, which, however inaccurate, is better than none.