Memory embellishes Life. Forgetfulness makes it possible.
Painting is a self-disciplined activity that you have to learn by yourself.
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.
I want to see how life can triumph.
You don't paint what you see, you paint what you feel.
The essence of art is to recapturel the fantasy and the imagination of a child again, but without the innocence of a child.