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

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

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

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.

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

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

I have but one life to give to adventure.