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

It's through discipline and tremendous disappointment and failure that you arrive at what it is you must paint.

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

Pollock was terrific. I think he freed himself of all kinds of worry about this world. Ran around and dripped, and then he managed to express ecstasy.

Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye, it is in the mind.

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

There's nobody living who couldn't stand all afternoon in front of a waterfall .... Anyone who can sit on a stone in a field awhile can see my painting. Nature is like parting a curtain, you go into it .... as you would cross an empty beach to look at the ocean.