I'm very careful not to have ideas, because they're inaccurate.

What I say is that we're capable of a transcendent response, and I think it makes us happy. And I do think beauty produces a transcendent response.

Any material may be used but the theme is the same and the response is the same for all artwork... we all have the same concern, but the artist must know exactly what the experience is. He must pursue the truth relentlessly

Doing what you were born to do … That's the way to be happy.

My paintings are not about what is seen. They are about what is known forever in the mind.

Fulfill your potential. That's the way to happiness.

The enormous pitfall is devotion to oneself instead of to life. All works that are self-devoted are absolutely ineffective.