On pavements and the bark of trees I have found whole worlds.

I believe that painting should come through the avenues of meditation rather than the canals of action.

The dimension that counts for the creative person is the space he creates within himself. This inner space is closer to the infinite than the other, and it is the privilege of the balanced mind…...

All of the artists congregated at our place. My folks were an anomaly since so many of the others were gay. The young guys appreciated getting a home-cooked meal there on Sunday.

According to one critic, my works looked like scraped billboards. I went to look at the billboards and decided that more billboards should be scraped.