I see no reason for painting anything that can be put into any other form as well.

I think it's so foolish for people to want to be happy. Happy is so momentary--you're happy for an instant and then you start thinking again. Interest is the most important thing in life; happiness is temporary, but interest is continuous.

God told me if I painted that mountain enough, I could have it.

Bement was a very good teacher but he was a very poor painter. I guess he wasn't a painter at all. He had no courage and I believe that to create one's own world in any of the arts takes courage.

The abstraction is often the most definite form for the intangible thing in myself that I can clarify in paint.

I don't see why we ever think of what others think of what we do – no matter who they are. Isn't it enough just to express yourself?

Anyone who doesn't feel the crosses simply doesn't get that country.