Art is the soul of a people.

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

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.

The essence of art is to recapturel the fantasy and the imagination of a child again, but without the innocence of a child.

The artist has to be something like a whale swimming with his mouth wide open, absorbing everything until he has what he really needs.

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.

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