An ametuer is an artist who supports himself with outside jobs which enable him to paint. A professional is someone whose wife works to enable him to paint.

Now, my knowledge of photography was terribly limited.

To abstract is to draw out the essence of a matter. To abstract in art is to separate certain fundamentals from irrelevant material which surrounds them.

I believe that if it were left to artists to choose their own labels, most would choose none.

The time when I had desire to go to the United States I didn't have a penny. It was in the middle of the depression, you know. I couldn't get as far as Hoboken at that time.

To abstract is to draw out the essence of a matter.

How do you paint yellow wheat against a yellow sky? You paint it jet black.