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.

If you're any kind of artist, you make a miraculous journey, and you come back and make some statements in shapes and colors of where you were.

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.

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