Whether you succeed or not is irrelevant, there is no such thing. Making your unknown known is the important thing.

I have a single track mind. I work on an idea for a long time. It's like getting acquainted with a person, and I don't get acquainted easily.

It is really so nice here-country-busy-busy with so many different kinds of things-... I must say I feel far away in another world here-... always we go to a new place...the people have a kind of gentleness that isn't usual on the mainland.

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

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?

I took back a barrel of bones to New York. They were my symbols of the desert, but nothing more. I haven't seen enough to think of any other symbolism. The skulls were there and I could say something with them.