You don't paint what you see, you paint what you feel.

What I've attempted to do is establish a world through art in which the validity of my Negro experience could live and make its own logic.

Practically all great artists accept the influence of others. But... the artist with vision sees his material, chooses, changes, and by integrating what he has learned with his own experiences, finally molds something distinctly personnel.

I want to see how life can triumph.

Painting is a self-disciplined activity that you have to learn by yourself.

You should always respect what you are and your culture because if your art is going to mean anything, that is where it comes from.

Sometimes the mind relives things very clearly for us...There are roads out of secret places within us along which we all must move as we go to touch others.