Today painters do not have to go to a subject matter outside of themselves. Most modern painters work from a different source. They work from within.

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.

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

Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you.

A shower is the perfect place for crying. No one can hear you if you do it quietly, into a wash-cloth, with the water running.

The ants are bad" The Bear"the ants?"Tahir"Do not be fooled. They look very small, so harm you don't think of then at all. Then years. Then one day you wake up, and your home has fallen down." Osman.

You won't ever know, unless you try!

The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion.

The survival of love depends on the management of change.

Forgiveness is attention without judgment. It heals the one who forgives and the one who is forgiven.

Whatever is at the center of our life will be the source of our security, guidance, wisdom, and power.Life just has to go on!

The real spiritual progress of the aspirant is measured by the extent to which he achieves inner tranquility.

It was the heart of any scam or fiddle -- keep the punter uncertain, or, if he is certain, make him certain of the wrong thing.

Two kinds of men generally best succeed in political life; men of no principle, but of great talent; and men of no talent, but of one principle - that of obedience to their superiors.