Objective painting is not good painting unless it is good in the abstract sense.

Art is a wicked thing. It is what we are.

One can not be an American by going about saying that one is an American. It is necessary to feel America, like America, love America and then work.

I've been afraid every single day of my life, but I've gone ahead and done it anyway.

I don't know what Art is but I know some things it isn't when I see them.

I often lay on that bench looking up into the tree, past the trunk and up into the branches. It was particularly fine at night with the stars above the tree.

Someone else's vision will never be as good as your own vision of your self. Live and die with it 'cause in the end it's all you have. Lose it and you lose yourself and everything else. I should have listened to myself.