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

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

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

Falsehood always punishes itself.

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

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.

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