The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.

Wonder is the seed of knowledge

The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.

I feel that I am much freer if I'm on my own, but I'm sure that there are a lot of painters who would perhaps be even more inventive if they had people round them... I find that if I am on my own I can allow the paint to dictate to me. So the images that I'm putting down on the canvas dictate the thing to me and it gradually builds up and comes along.

Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt.

An illustrational form tells you through the intelligence immediately what the form is about, whereas a non-illustrational form works first upon sensation and then slowly leaks back into the fact.

Whence we see spiders, flies, or ants entombed and preserved forever in amber, a more than royal tomb.