If one could only reproduce nature, and always with less beauty than the original, why paint at all?

I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me - shapes and ideas so near to me - so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down.

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

I look at my work and make up my mind about it. After that, neither flattery nor criticism matters to me.

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.

Imagination makes you see all sorts of things.

Fill a space in a beautiful way.