...art is something subversive. It's something that should not be free. Art and liberty, like the fire of Prometheus, are things that one must steal, to be used against the established order.

It is personality with a penny's worth of talent. Error which chances to rise above the commonplace.

One never knows what one is going to do. One starts a painting and then it becomes something quite different.

We can see the light but we are still inside the tunnel, ... We have not been able to get to all the communities.

You must always work not just within but below your means. If you can handle three elements, handle only two. If you can handle ten, then handle only five. In that way the ones you do handle, you handle with more ease, more mastery, and you create a feeling of strength in reserve.

Painting is stronger than me, it makes me do it's bidding.

A painter is a man who paints what he sells; an artist, on the other hand, is a man who sells what he paints.