I want art to affect the viewer and for the viewer to take it away to enhance, embrace, and elevate life. That's the spiritual aspect. Painting is a ….

We live in a time when people are afraid of beauty, because beauty passes; you can't hang on to it. And even if you see something or someone beautifu….

To handle paint the way Pollock did, you need the muscularity of a ballet dancer..

I consider my work non-objective and I think abstract is an abstraction of something, like a landscape. Abstraction means something is abstracted. It….

An artist needs to become familiar with that which is most hidden from the self by the self. For this one thing which one fears to know is often the ….

I'm purposeless. I'm making art because I want you to look at that painting and I want it to affect you in some way, to change what you see, to chang….

Art is the most important way of recording history..

Painting is an object, but it's also a voice. I don't see them as objects; I see them as voices..

I have my moods, but I can always see something beautiful..

When you see the holy halo around the holy heads on holy paintings - the halo is a bright light so you can't see the face. The face comes in darkness….

Everything you do on Earth is political..

I have a friend who says a beautiful painting can cure headaches, but I want it to cure a little bit more! I want it to cure the society of voting fo….

Every piece of art will be if it's lucky enough to be dug up, if there's anything to dig up..

Art is a way you discover the past, and so it brings the past into the present and the future. That's why we have anthropologists who dig up the art ….

Art as a political gesture is committed to making something beautiful, and then understanding what beauty is in your own time, because what we think ….

The spiritual in my art is giving up control. My paintings are based on what I can do, and what I can do is not controlled. So I give up control, and….