The worst thing you can think about when you're working is yourself.

Happiness is being on the beam with life - to feel the pull of life

The adventurous state of mind is a high house... The joy of adventure is unaccountable. This is the attractiveness of artwork. It is adventurous, strenuous and joyful.

When I first made a grid I happened to be thinking of the innocence of trees and then this grid came into my mind and I thought it represented innocence, and I still do, and so I painted it and then I was satisfied. I thought, this is my vision.

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

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.

You can't make a perfect painting. We can see perfection in our minds. But we can't make a perfect painting.