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

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

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

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.

Painting and art cannot be taught. You can save time if someone tells you to put blue and yellow together to make green, but the essence of painting is a self-disciplined activity that you have to learn by yourself.

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