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

To make your unknown known - that's the important thing.

Bement was a very good teacher but he was a very poor painter. I guess he wasn't a painter at all. He had no courage and I believe that to create one's own world in any of the arts takes courage.

I've been afraid every single day of my life, but I've gone ahead and done it anyway.

God told me if I painted that mountain enough, I could have it.

Art is a wicked thing. It is what we are.

My first memory is of the brightness of light — light all around.