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.

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.

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.

White lines in movement symbolize a unifying idea which flows through the compartmented units of life bringing the consciousness of a larger relativity.

You’ve got to have confidence in the very thing that makes you unique – then wait for the world to catch up

When I lived in New York, not only did I have safety locks on the door but I had the music going, keeping the city at a distance, trying to find creative time and peace and so forth.

The Emmy will have no effect on me, from the standpoint that you've still got to wash your bowl after breakfast.

The appetite grows with eating.

Kate Atkinson is an absolute must-read. I love everything she writes.

When I have fears that I may ceace to be, Before my pen has gleaned my teaming brain".

The only thing worth having in an earthly existence is a sense of humor.

Of course, some would say if you have a performing inclination, then you should become a lawyer. That's a platform we use, or a priest. You know, anywhere you lecture and pontificate to people.

There is balance in life, but not fairness.

I read a poem every night, as others read a prayer.