It's not about facts, it's about feelings. It's about remembering feelings and happiness. A definition of art is that it makes concrete our most sub….

Doing what you were born to do … That's the way to be happy..

I hope I have made it clear that the work is about perfection as we are aware of it in our minds but that the paintings are very far from being perfe….

It's through discipline and tremendous disappointment and failure that you arrive at what it is you must paint..

You can't make a perfect painting. We can see perfection in our minds. But we can't make a perfect painting..

What I say is that we're capable of a transcendent response, and I think it makes us happy. And I do think beauty produces a transcendent response..

The enormous pitfall is devotion to oneself instead of to life. All works that are self-devoted are absolutely ineffective..

I would like my work to be recognized as being in the classical tradition (Coptic, Egyptian, Greek, Chinese), as representing the Ideal in the mind. ….

To progress in life you must give up the things you do not like. Give up doing the things that you do not like to do. You must find the things that y….

It is commonly thought that everything that is can be put into words..

Of all the pitfalls in our paths and the tremendous delays and wanderings off the track, I want to say that they are not what they seem to be. I want….

Anything can be painted without representation..

I once taught art to adults in a night course. I had a woman who painted her back yard, and she said it was the first time she had ever really looked….

I paint with my back to the world.

When I think of art I think of beauty. Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye it is in the mind. In our minds there is awareness of perf….

The Minimalists are idealist. They want to minimise themselves in favour of the ideal. But I just can't. You see, my paintings are not cool. ... I'm ….

Pollock was terrific. I think he freed himself of all kinds of worry about this world. Ran around and dripped, and then he managed to express ecstasy..

I want to emphasize the fact that we all have the same experience and the same concern, but the artist must know exactly what the experience is. He m….

Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings..

Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye, it is in the mind..

My paintings are not about what is seen. They are about what is known forever in the mind..