Garden work consists much more in uprooting weeds than in planting seed. This applies also to teaching.

I go out each morning and draw. I can't really start a painting in the morning until I've done a drawing.

I destroy things every day in the act of working and often recall a picture I had considered finished in order to rework it.

The unity in any painter's work arises from the fact that a person, brought to a desperate situation, will behave in a certain way... style.

Real style is not having a program - it's how one behaves in a crisis.

Ideally, one should have more material than one can possibly cope with.

I think that the very earliest influence was a horror of having to work in a bank or an office, a desire for a free and creative life.