Trust is equal parts character and competence. . . You can look at any leadership failure, and it's always a failure of one or the other.
If you know what you're doing, you're doing dull stuff.
The abstract expressionists had that thing of, subject matter becomes content, content becomes form. And I always thought there was no room for style. I felt with my painting, the style really is the content. The style holds everything together.
I like to make an image that is so simple you can't avoid it, and so complicated you can't figure it out.
You have to be a little scared of what you're doing. Otherwise, you just paint the same masterpiece a little worse.
Realist painting has to do with leaving out a lot of detail. I think my painting can be a little shocking in all that it leaves out. But what happens is that the mind fills in what's missing. . . Painting is a way of making you see what I saw.
Sometimes it takes me days or weeks to get something clear in my head on what I want to do. Everything is in steps. One thing leads to another.
One of the great problems of the world today is undoubtedly this problem of not being able to talk to scientists, because we don't understand science; they can't talk to us because they don't understand anything else, poor dears.
Every other religion is a salvation by self, Christianity is a salvation by Christ.
You cannot flea a stone.
Learning from one's enemies is the best way to love them, for it puts one into a grateful mood toward them.