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I never decided at all to be an artist; being an artist seems to have happened to me.
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I've struggled all my life to get maximum meaning in the simplest possible form.
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I have no home but me.
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No one questions the fact that verbal language has to be learned, but the commonplaceness of visual experience betrays art; people tend to assume that, because they can see, they can see art.
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The most demanding part of living a lifetime as an artist is the strict discipline of forcing oneself to work steadfastly along the nerve of one's own intimate sensitivity.
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Art comes into the highest part of the mind, that with which we can know the presence of God.
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Artists have no choice but to express their lives.
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I have been flooded with color on the inside, drab on the outside.