I worked my way through art school as an auto mechanic, doing various stuff including sanding bodywork and using Bondo filler..

Ive come to believe in the primacy of form - the notion of art seducing you through your senses, through your eyeballs..

Art is really about perception, and mine have been changed through visiting other realities..

To lead is neither to push or pull..

Wall-to-wall masterpieces, after all, ought to be preferred to wall-to-wall decorative arts, even if the decorative arts are of the highest quality p….

As long as there are musicians who have a passion for spontaneity, for creating something thats never been before, the art form of jazz will flourish..

They self-inflict punishment on their own broken lives, put their faith in their possessions, in their jobs, or their wives..

The artist is very lucky, because in an art form that's spontaneous like jazz, that's when you really see your true self. And that's why, when I put ….

I think great art is always ambiguous and can't be pinned down..

Memento mori and obey the Lord. Art and religion love the somber chord..

Based on mixtures of the three primary colours, along with black and white, I come up with a certain number of possible colours and, by multiplying t….

When I paint from a photograph, conscious thinking is eliminated. I don't know what I am doing. My work is far closer to the Informel than to any kin….

It reveals us to ourselves, it represents those modulations and temperamental changes which escape all verbal analysis, it utters what must else rema….

Theory has nothing to do with a work of art. Pictures which are interpretable, and which contain a meaning, are bad pictures. A picture presents itse….

My university degree is in art and, yes, I do a lot of drawing for all my books. I have a big drafting table set up in a spare bedroom and I cover it….

Ah, well, do I wish that we lived in a world where gender didn't figure so prominently? Of course. Do I even think about myself as a woman when I go ….

I go to make art as who I am as a person. The fact that I am a woman comes into play maybe in the kinds of things I'm interested in or in the way I s….

They memorize everything and learn... nothing..

I feel like I have at least begun to make a contribution, but my most significant concern has to do with whether my actual art will be preserved for ….

I believe in art that is connected to real human feeling, that extends itself beyond the limits of the art world to embrace all people who are strivi….

I'm constantly exposing myself to art and that inspires me..