You instinctively like what you can't do..

I paint not the things I see but the feelings they arouse in me..

If I feel a painting I'm working on doesn't have imagery or emotion, I paint it out and work over it until it does..

People sometimes think I take a white canvas and paint a black sign on it,but this is not true.I paint the white as well as the black and the white i….

You paint the way you have to in order to give. That's life itself, and someone will look and say it is the product of knowing, but it has nothing to….

Half the world wants to be like Thoreau worrying about the noise of traffic on the way up to Boston; the other half use up their lives being part of ….

To be right is the most terrific personal state that nobody is interested in..

If you're a painter, you're not alone. There's no way to be alone..

The final test of a painting, theirs, mine, any other, is: do the painter's emotions come across?.