Nothing is a mistake. There’s no win and no fail. There’s only make.

Celebration is a kind of food we all need in our lives, and each individual brings a special recipe or offering, so that together we will make a great feast. Celebration is a human need that we must not, and can not, deny. It is richer and fuller when many work and then celebrate together.

I am not brave enough to not pay my income tax and risk going to jail. But I can say rather freely what I want to say with my art.

Find a place you trust and then try trusting it for a while.

A painting is a symbol for the universe. Inside it, each piece relates to the other. Each piece is only answerable to the rest of that little world. So, probably in the total universe, there is that kind of total harmony, but we get only little tastes of it.

That's why people listen to music or look at paintings. To get in touch with that wholeness.

Earnestness and sincerity are synonymous.