The most reliable components are the ones you leave out.
White. . . is death. It's hospitals. It's my terrible nurses. White is absolute horror. It is just the worst.
My paintings are titled after they are finished. I paint from remembered landscapes that I carry with me - and remembered feelings of them, which of course become transformed. I could certainly never mirror nature. I would more like to paint what it leaves with me.
Abstract is not a style. I simply want to make a surface work. This is just a use of space and form: it's an ambivalence of forms and space.
My paintings repeat a feeling about Lake Michigan, or water, or fields. . . it's more like a poem. . . and that's what I want to paint.
Sunflowers are like people to me.
I believe becoming an adult isn't a good thing for a guy. I think that guys should not forget about its youthful soul. So I want to say that I still have a heart of a baby or an elementary school kid.
I think no one knows my politics.
[T]he more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. . . [taking] away from before their eyes the greatest of all inducements to industry, frugality, and sobriety, by giving them a dependence of somewhat else than a careful accumulation during youth and health for support in age and sickness.
I don’t want to fade away, I want to flame away - I want my death to be an attraction, a spectacle, a mystery. A work of art.