It is as hard to take success as it is failure.

I only know this - that you can’t give advice to an artist.

But when I fell in love with black, it contained all color. It wasn’t a negation of color. It was an acceptance. Because black encompasses all colors. Black is the most aristocratic color of all.... You can be quiet and it contains the whole thing.

You take a painting, you have a white, virginal piece of canvas that is the world of purity, and then you put your imagery on it, and you try to bring it back to the original purity.

When you are doing a piece you are with it. You don't want to wait until next week, when experience will have given you something else.

I always wanted to show the world that art is everywhere, except it has to pass through a creative mind.

I never feel age... If you have creative work you don't have age or time.