I'm so immersed in my little world that I don't often sit back and pay attention to what's going on around me. It truly stuns me when people recogniz….

In spite of everything, there is still no more wonderful vocation than to continue to tolerate events and to work on in the name of our mission, in t….

Everything in art must spring from the movement of our whole life-stream, of our whole being - including the unconscious..

I do feel that the world is entering into a period of the incredible period of reflection and introspection. A lot of people are questioning the futu….

Great art picks up where nature ends..

I adore the theater and I am a painter. I think the two are made for a marriage of love. I will give all my soul to prove this once more..

I like characters. I like spirited characters whether they exist in fiction or real life. Whether they're the invention of artistic people or directo….

If I create from the heart, nearly everything works; if from the head, almost nothing..

Art does not exist only to entertain, but also to challenge one to think, to provoke, even to disturb, in a constant search for truth..

I don't read music. Not even essentially. Not even nonessentially..

The Boston Globe: The Woodstock Music and Art Festival will surely go down in history as a mass event of great and positive significance in the life ….

Art is foremost a state of mind, and only secondarily a problem of form..

Changes in societal structure and in art would possess more credibility if they had their origins in the soul and spirit. If people read the words of….

When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God-made object up to it.

You cannot explain me with "isms." They are very bad for an artist. What one must believe in is color..

When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God-made object up to it - a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand - as a final test. If the pai….

Art is supposed to punch you in the brain, and it's supposed to stay punched..

The more seriously you take yourself, the less others will..

There is no beginning too small..

Art seems to me to be above all a state of soul. All souls are sacred, the soul of all the bipeds in every quarter of the globe..

The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world. In this long vigil he often has to vary his methods of ….