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.

Painting is the act of discovery and you're constantly enlarging your horizon or finding yourself every time you paint.

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

Black art has always existed. It just hasn't been looked for in the right places.

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

The most difficult object in painting is yourself because you're always at issue