Americans are very friendly and very suspicious, that is what Americans are and that is what always upsets the foreigner, who deals with them, they are so friendly how can they be so suspicious they are so suspicious how can they be so friendly but they just are.

A great deal of beauty is rapture. A circle is a necessity. Otherwise you would see no one. We each have our circle.

Once upon a time Baltimore was necessary.

Nothing is more interesting than that something that you eat.

The first hope of a painter who feels hopeful about painting is the hope that the painting will move, that it will live outside its frame.

Let me listen to me and not to them.

Well money is not easy to describe. It is easy to lose but it cannot be lost, and no one can get really get used to it.