Walk on a rainbow trail; walk on a trail of song, and all about you will be beauty. There is a way out of every dark mist, over a rainbow trail.

The public's appetite for famous people is a mouth as big as a mountain.

If you can't find your inspiration by walking around the block one time, go around two times-but never three.

I feel most real to myself in the studio.

Nothing as drastic an innovation as abstract art could have come in to existence, save as the consequence of a most profound, relentless, unquenchable need. The need is for felt experience - intense, immediate, direct, subtle, unified, warm, vivid, rhythmic.

Most painting in the European tradition was painting the mask. Modern art rejected all that. Our subject matter was the person behind the mask.

It may be that the deep necessity of art is the examination of individual's and society's self-deception.