No matter how individual we humans are, we are a composite of everything we are aware of. We are a mirror of our times.

I was given the gifts of the artist, and the trouble that goes with them: So I have that blessing, and there was never a time thatI questioned it or doubted it.... For forty years, I wanted to jump out of windows.

I never for one minute questioned what I had to do. I did not think for one minute that I didn't have what I had. If just didn't dawn on me. And so if you know what you have, then you know that there's nobody on earth that can affect you.

I think all great innovations are built on rejections.

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

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.

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.