Humility is the daughter of truth.

There is an appalling amount of mechanical work in the artist's life ... Talent is mysterious, but the qualities that guard, foster, and direct it are not unlike those of a good quartermaster.

the more visible my work became, the less visible I grew to myself.

I never decided at all to be an artist; being an artist seems to have happened to me.

January is my favorite month, when the light is plainest, least colored. And I like the feeling of beginnings.

I have been flooded with color on the inside, drab on the outside.

Our society is monstrously disjunctive, at once so efficient in war and so inefficient in caring for the welfare of its members. It is frightening to see people rooting in garbage pails on streets, living in cardboard crates under bridges, while their government wages war. Even when there is an emergency in a household, decent parents do not forget to feed the children.