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

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.

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

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

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.