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

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.

Love them that hate you, but you can't love them whom you hate.

European emigrants and their descendants are all over the place, which requires explanation.

In real life, I'm pretty much an eternal optimist.

Kids do say the darndest things

You can't lead the people if you don't love the people. You can't save the people if you don't serve the people.

Our grocery store now has self-checkout, for your convenience. It's like getting punched in the throat, for your comfort.

Party is a body of men united, for promoting by their joint endeavours the national interest, upon some particular principle in which they are all agreed.

MS Dhoni showed India what a tough man from a small town could dream and achieve. He has been a role model. Respect.

...And in freedom, most people find sin.

Take any path you like; follow any prophet you like; but have only that method which suits your own nature, so that you will be sure to progress.