The modern artist is working with space and time, and expressing his feelings rather than illustrating.

Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.

The secret of success is… to be fully awake to everything about you.

If people would just look at the paintings, I don't think they would have any trouble enjoying them. It's like looking at a bed of flowers, you don't tear your hair out over what it means.

Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you. There was a reviewer a while back who wrote that my pictures didn't have any beginning or any end. He didn't mean it as a compliment, but it was.

Art is coming face to face with yourself.

There is no accident, just as there is no beginning and no end.

Painting is no problem. The problem is what to do when you're not painting.

It doesn't matter how the paint is put on, as long as something is said.

Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you.

You can't learn techniques and then try to become a painter. Techniques are a result.

One must count ones riches by the means one has to satisfy his desires.

Think, Act, Become

Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.

I'm different, and my manner invites questions. I'm never afraid to answer.

And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but perceivest not the beam that is in thine own eye?

It's an unbelievably tight race for hideous today.

Modern man has yielded to the harsh, the crude, the vulgar, the profane, the immoral.

Our continents unification is at hand and we must stand to account.

Literature, taken in all its bearings, forms the grand line of demarcation between the human and the animal kingdoms.

I don't need the Ballon d'Or to know I'm the best. It matters more to some players