When I first made a grid I happened to be thinking of the innocence of trees and then this grid came into my mind and I thought it represented innoce….

I used to meditate until I learned to stop thinking..

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

Fulfill your potential. That's the way to happiness..

I paint with my back to the world.

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..

Inspiration is there all the time. For everyone whose mind is not clouded over with thoughts whether they realize it or not..

There's nobody living who couldn't stand all afternoon in front of a waterfall .... Anyone who can sit on a stone in a field awhile can see my painti….

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

My paintings are certainly nonobjective. They're just horizontal lines. There's not any hint of nature. And still everybody responds, I think..

Beauty and happiness and life are all the same and they are pervasive, unattached and abstract and they are our only concern. They are immeasurable, ….

The adventurous state of mind is a high house... The joy of adventure is unaccountable. This is the attractiveness of artwork. It is adventurous, str….

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 ….

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….

It would be an endless battle if it were all up to ego because it does not destroy and is not destroyed by itself It is like a wave it makes itsel….

What we really want to do is serve happiness. We want everyone to be happy, never unhappy even for a moment. We want the animals to be happy. The hap….

I often paint tranquility. If you stop thinking and rest, then a little happiness comes into your mind. At perfect rest you are comfortable..

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….