Painting and art cannot be taught. You can save time if someone tells you to put blue and yellow together to make green, but the essence of painting is a self-disciplined activity that you have to learn by yourself.

Art is the soul of a people.

Memory embellishes Life. Forgetfulness makes it possible.

I want to see how life can triumph.

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.

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.

The artist confronts chaos. The whole thing of art is, how do you organize chaos?