It's through discipline and tremendous disappointment and failure that you arrive at what it is you must paint.

It's not about facts, it's about feelings. It's about remembering feelings and happiness. A definition of art is that it makes concrete our most subtle emotions. I think the highest form of art is music. It's the most abstract of all art expression.

I once taught art to adults in a night course. I had a woman who painted her back yard, and she said it was the first time she had ever really looked at it. I think everyone sees beauty. Art is a way to respond

When you look in your mind you find it covered with a lot of rubbishy thoughts. You have to penetrate these and hear what your mind is telling you to do. Such work is original work.

It's through discipline and tremendous disappointment and failure that you arrive at what it is you must paint.

Happiness is being on the beam with life - to feel the pull of life

What I say is that we're capable of a transcendent response, and I think it makes us happy. And I do think beauty produces a transcendent response.