I am not brave enough to not pay my income tax and risk going to jail. But I can say rather freely what I want to say with my art.
Celebration is a kind of food we all need in our lives, and each individual brings a special recipe or offering, so that together we will make a great feast. Celebration is a human need that we must not, and can not, deny. It is richer and fuller when many work and then celebrate together.
Women’s liberation is the liberation of the feminine in the man and the masculine in the woman.
A painting is a symbol for the universe. Inside it, each piece relates to the other. Each piece is only answerable to the rest of that little world. So, probably in the total universe, there is that kind of total harmony, but we get only little tastes of it.
That’s why people listen to music or look at paintings. To get in touch with that wholeness.
Flowers grow out of dark moments.
Damn everything but the circus.
Find a place you trust and then try trusting it for a while.
To be disciplined is to follow in a good way. To be self disciplined is to follow in a better way.
Not all of us are painters but we are all artists. Each time we fit things together we are creating – whether it is to make a loaf of bread, a child, a day.
Maybe we are less than our dreams, but that less would make us more than some gods would dream of.
Earnestness and sincerity are synonymous.
To create is to relate. We trust in the artist in everybody to make his own connections, his own juxtapositions.
Creativity belongs to the artist in each of us. To create means to relate. The root meaning of the word art is ‘to fit together’ and we all do this every day.
A responsible person is one who responds.
Life stands still when mankind is afraid to take a chance.
Art does not come from thinking but from responding.
If you work it will lead to something. It’s the people who do all of the work all the time who eventually catch on to things.
To understand is to stand under which is to look up to which is a good way to understand.
When you get past making labels for things, it is possible to combine and transform elements into new things. Look at things until their import, identity, name, use, and description have dissolved.