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

Art is the soul of a people.

I want to see how life can triumph.

You put down one color and it calls for an answer. You have to look at it like a melody.

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.

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.

Memory embellishes Life. Forgetfulness makes it possible.