In addition to the artistic influences, I am influenced by my current private life, my feelings about it and my energy level and state of health.

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

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

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.

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

Falsehood always punishes itself.

I'm hoping to make a new thing for the world that remains in the mind like a new species of living thing.