It gave me great pleasure to think that I could take wood, make it good, and make people like Rockefeller buy it with paper money.

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.

I think that in the sexual act, as delightful as it can be, the very physical part of it is, yes, a hammering away. So it has a certain brutality.

I'm in tune with the right vibrations in the universe when I'm in the process of working.

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.

Some of us come on earth seeing – some of us come on earth seeing color.

True strength is delicate.