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.

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

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

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

When I conjure these memories, they are of the present to me, because after all, the artist is a kind of enchanter in time.

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.

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.