War is killing the individual in it unless he has learned livingness - if he had it he wouldn't be a good soldier.

It was in the 1920s, when nobody had time to reflect, that I saw a still-life painting with a flower that was perfectly exquisite, but so small you really could not appreciate it.

Anyone who doesn't feel the crosses simply doesn't get that country.

Whether you succeed or not is irrelevant, there is no such thing. Making your unknown known is the important thing.

Objective painting is not good painting unless it is good in the abstract sense.

I know I am unreasonable about people but there are so many wonderful people whom I can't take the time to know.

There's something about black. You feel hidden away in it.