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

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

I used to meditate until I learned to stop thinking.

That which takes us by surprise-moments of happiness-that is inspiration.

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.

Anything can be painted without representation.