“I find color schemes that I just like and that just feel right.”

I feel like everyone who goes to The University of Texas is blessed and lucky to be there because they’re getting a chance to be as good as they can be.

Eventually there are going to be cities in space.

History has spurts and then is steady, and then maybe even backing up a step, and then forward again.

It’s hard not to be excited when you’re going to find a way to land on the moon.

It seems farther away now because there are no rockets getting there. Nobody is going.

Frequently on the lunar surface I said to myself, ‘This is the Moon, that is the Earth. I’m really here, I’m really here!’

The moon is very rugged.

Test pilots have a litmus test for evaluating problems. When something goes wrong, they ask, “Is this thing still flying?

I feel like there’s too many paintings left unpainted that I just don’t want to take the time away.

I found I have to stay painting.

I have the nicest life in the world.

But I found that being an artist and doing accurate work is very difficult.

If the answer is yes, then there’s no immediate danger, no need to overreact.

We knew it was going to be difficult to get to the moon. We didn’t know how difficult.

As the centuries unfold, millions of artists will live on the moon and paint the moon and Mars as we go out into the universe.

I think everything depends on money.

Light is a thing that cannot be reproduced, but must be represented by something else – by color.

I cannot attain the intensity that is unfolded before my senses. I have not the magnificent richness of colouring that animates nature.

Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.

Design and color are not distinct and separate. As one paints, one draws. The more the colors harmonize, the more the design takes form. When color is at it’s richest, form is at its fullest.

Whether you want it or not, your genes have a political past, your skin a political tone. your eyes a political color. You walk with political steps on political ground.

The authority of any governing institution must stop at its citizen’s skin.

For the forest to be green, each tree must be green.

Consciousness even in my sleep changes primary colors. The features of my face melt like a wax doll in the fire. And who can consent to see in the mirror the mere face of man?