I decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale, you could not ignore its beauty.

If you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for a moment.

I don't very much enjoy looking at paintings in general. I know too much about them. I take them apart.

It always seems to me that so few people live - they just seem to exist and I don't see any reason why we shouldn't live always - til we die physically.

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

You are one of my nicest thoughts.

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