Painting dissolves the forms at its command ... it melts them into color.

So-called restoration is at least as tricky as brain surgery. Most pictures expire under scalpel and sponge.

We're not home-and-hearth people. We're the adventurers, the buccaneers, the blockade runners. Without challenge, we're only alive.

Personal answers to ultimate questions. That is what we seek.

I have but one life to give to adventure.

Painting dissolves the forms at its command ... it melts them into color.

Painting dissolves the forms at its command, or tends to; it melts them into color. Drawing, on the other hand, goes about resolving forms, giving edge and essence to things. To see shapes clearly, one outlines them--whether on paper or in the mind. Therefore, Michelangelo, a profoundly cultivated man, called drawing the basis of all knowledge whatsoever.